English
cyme
Pronunciation Noun

cyme (plural cymes)

  1. (spelt cime, obsolete, rare) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
  2. (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. Contrast raceme.
    • 1906, Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (editors), Gentianaceæ, article in The New International Encyclopædia,
      The inflorescence is some form of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular.
    • 2003, S. M. Reddy, S. J. Chary, University Botany 2: Gymnosperms, Plant Anatomy, Genetics, Ecology, [http://books.google.com/books?id=V_zkSl13egYC&pg=PA190&dq=%22cyme%22+intitle:botany&hl=en&ei=cQASTv73NcWgmQWW_JyuDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=%22cyme%22%20intitle%3Abotany&f=false page 190],
      The plant bears small groups of two or three yellowish coloured flowers on an axillary cyme.
    • 2003, David Curtis Ferree, Ian J. Warrington, Apples: Botany, Production and Uses, [http://books.google.com/books?id=_-MePLY9imoC&pg=PA157&dq=%22cyme%22+intitle:botany&hl=en&ei=RQMSTqHgGOygmQX2mLyjDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q=%22cyme%22%20intitle%3Abotany&f=false page 157],
      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.
  3. (architecture) = cyma
Related terms Translations Noun

cyme (plural cymes)

  1. Misspelling of senna


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