Meaning of cyme | Babel Free

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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