cyme
/saɪm/ · noun
Meaning
- (spelt cime) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
- 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.
- = cyma
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