CYME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cyme mean? 

• CYME (noun)
  The noun CYME has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CYME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cyme" is a kind of...):

inflorescence (the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cyme"):

cymule (a small cyme, generally with few flowers)

glomerule (a compacted or sessile cyme)

scorpioid cyme (a cyme with flowers or branches alternating in opposite ranks)

 Context examples 

Stamens are many, arranged in bundles of threes, and the flowers are profuse, arranged in branched cymes which bloom from June until September.

(Hypericum perforatum, NCI Thesaurus)