cyme

/sahym/US // saɪm //UK // (saɪm) //

西梅,西米,赛米

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single central or terminal flower that blooms first.
- : a flat or convex inflorescence of this type.

Pair of ear-rings, from a grave at Cyme in Aeolis, with filigree work and pendant Erotes.
Cyme, in appearance much like a corymb, but it differs in the fact that the central flower blooms first.
Flowers moncious, rarely dicious, in a terminal open forking cyme; the fertile ones usually in the lower forks.
Diminutive of , a branch, from the repeatedly branched cyme of the original species.
Compound cyme of Hydrangea arborescens, with neutral enlarged flowers round the circumference.