cyme

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Now there is already a received and useful botanical word, 'cyme' (which we shall want in a little while.)

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  1. noun A usually flat-topped or convex flower cluster in which the main axis and each branch end in a flower that opens before the flowers below or to the side of it.

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  1. Latin cȳma, young cabbage sprout, from Greek kūma, anything swollen, sprout; see cyma.

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  1. Also, as New Latin, cyma; from Greek κῦμα (later L. cyma), a young sprout, etc., same as κῦμα a wave, swell, etc.: see cyma.
 

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