Cyme

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A usually flat-topped or convex flower cluster in which the main axis and each branch end in a flower that opens before the flowers below or to the side of it.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. erroneous form of senna
  • n. A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
  • n. 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. Contrast raceme.
  • n. = cyma
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany: An inflorescence of the definite or determinate class; any form of inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, the inflorescence being continued by secondary, tertiary, and other axes.
  • n. A panicle, the elongation of all the ramifications of which is arrested so that it has the appearance of an umbel.
  • n. In architecture, same as cyma.
  • n. Also cima.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    inflorescence   
    Cross Reference
    bostrychoid cyme   
    Hyponym
    glomerule    scorpioid cyme    cymule   
     
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