Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cyme"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cyme \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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


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