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Cyme
//saɪm// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud. obsolete, rare
- 2 Misspelling of senna. alt-of, misspelling
- 3 more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first wordnet
- 4 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.
"The inflorescence is some form of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular."
- 5 A cyma.
Etymology
Etymology 1
] Borrowed from French cime, cyme (“top, summit”), from Vulgar Latin *cima, from Latin cȳma (“young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage”), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant”), from κύω (kúō, “I conceive”, “I become pregnant”; in the aorist “I impregnate”). For considerably more information, see cyma, which is an etymological doublet. Compare also Frankish *kīmō (“sprout”), from Proto-Germanic *kīmô, whence German Keim (“sprout”).
Etymology 2
An error for cynne, probably resulting from the overlapping of the two ens in handwriting.
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