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Cyme

Cyme Meaning & Definition
Cyme Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cyme?

[n] more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first

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See Also | inflorescence | scorpioid cyme

Cyme In Webster's Dictionary

\Cyme\ (s?m), n. [L. cyma the young sprount of a cabbage, fr. Gr. ???, prop., anything swollen, hence also cyme, wave, fr. ??? to be pregnant.] (Bot.) A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.

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