cyme

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

cyme, n. [L. cyma the young sprount of a cabbage, fr. Gr. , prop., anything swollen, hence also cyme, wave, fr. to be pregnant.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cyme, n. Bot. an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single terminal flower that develops first, the system being continued by the axes of secondary and higher orders each with a flower (cf. RACEME).

Derivative

cymose adj.

Etymology

F, var. of cime summit, ult. f. Gk kuma wave