cyme : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cyme	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for cyme
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cyme n more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first
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.