cyme

Definitions

1. top
2. A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
   obsolete, rare
3. peak, summit, mountaintop (top of a mountain or hill)
4. A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it.
5. A cyma.
6. third-person singular present indicative
7. second-person singular imperative

Equivalents

Examples

“The inflorescence is some form⟳ of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular.”

“The plant⟳ bears small groups of two or three yellowish coloured flowers on an axillary cyme.”

“The flower cluster is a cyme (terminal flower is the most advanced), is terminal within the bud and may contain⟳ up to six individual flowers.”

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