cymes

noun

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    = cyma

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