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Webster 1913 Edition

Cyme

Cyme

(s?m)
,
Noun.
[L.
cyma
the young sprount of a cabbage, fr. Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK], prop., anything swollen, hence also cyme, wave, fr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] 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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cyme

CYME

, CYMA,
Noun.
[Gr., fetus, to swell.] Literally, a sprout, particularly of the cabbage. Technically, an aggregate flower composed of several florets sitting on a receptacle, producing all the primary peduncles from the same point, but having the partial peduncles scattered and irregular; all fastigiate, or forming a flat surface at the top. It is naked or with bractes.

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