cyme en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- sīm (Received-Pronunciation)
- /saɪm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
] 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, “to conceive”, “to become pregnant”; in the aorist “to 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”).
Meanings
- (obsolete, rare) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
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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 plant bears small groups of two or three yellowish coloured flowers on an axillary cyme.
2003, S. M. Reddy, S. J. Chary, University Botany 2: Gymnosperms, Plant Anatomy, Genetics, Ecology, page 190:The flower cluster is a cyme (terminal flower is the most advanced), is terminal within the bud and may contain up to six individual flowers.
2003, David Curtis Ferree, Ian J. Warrington, Apples: Botany, Production and Uses, page 157:The inflorescence is some form of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular.
1906, “Gentianaceæ”, in Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, editors, The New International Encyclopædia:
- A cyma.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cime | alternative | lexicographic | |
| cymes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
cymoid · cymelet · cymiferous
Relateds
cymotrichy · cyma inversa · cyma recta · cymatic · cymous · cymatoscope · cyma reversa · cymograph · cymaise · cymosely · cymoid · cymose · cymatotrichous · cyma · cymatoid · cymotrichous · cymatium · cymatograph · cymatics · cymule · cymophanous · cymophane · cymoscope
Translations (12)
fi viuhko (botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head) · sv cymös blomställning (botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head) · eo cumo (botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head) · pt cima (botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head) · nb kvast (botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head) · de Zyme (botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head) · pl wierzchotka (botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head) · pt cimeira (botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head) · sv begränsad blomställning (botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head) · sv knippelik blomställning (botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head) · da kvast (botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head) · sv centrifugal inflorenscens (botany: a centrifugal or definite inflorescence, esp. compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head)