Cyme
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /saɪm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cyme is a noun meaning (architecture) A cyma.
Meaning
(architecture) A cyma.
More Meanings
- Misspelling of senna.
- (botany) 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.
- (obsolete, rare) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- cymes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include corymbose, umbellate, scorpioid, monochasial, dichasial, cymelet.
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