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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cyme having only one lateral flower or branch originating from beneath a terminal flower, resulting in a helicoid or scorpiod inflorescence.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, a cyme with one main axis; a uniparous cyme: a term proposed by Eichler.

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  • noun botany A type of cyme on which each single axis bears one flower.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[mono– + (di)chasium.]

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From New Latin monochasium, from Ancient Greek μόνος (monos, "alone, only, sole, single") + χάσις (khasis, "chasm, separation").

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