Dictionary entry

Cyme

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.