Associations to the word «Cyme»

CYME, noun. (spelt cime) (obsolete) (rare) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.

CYME, noun. (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.

CYME, noun. (architecture) = cyma

CYME, noun. Erroneous form of senna

CYME, noun. More or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first.