cyme Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first

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.