Cyme Definition

sīm
noun
A flat-topped inflorescence formed by a growth pattern in which the initial stem and all subsequent emerging lateral stems terminate with a blossom.
Webster's New World

(architecture) = cyma.

Wiktionary

Erroneous form of senna.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Cyme

Noun

Singular:
cyme
Plural:
cymes

Origin of Cyme

  • From the French cime, cyme (“top”, “summit”), from the Vulgar Latin cima, from the Latin cȳma (“young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage”), from the Ancient Greek κῦμα (kūma, “anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant”), from κύω (kuō, “I conceive”, “I become pregnant”; in the aorist “I impregnate”). For considerably more information, see cyma.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin cȳma young cabbage sprout from Greek kūma anything swollen, sprout cyma

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • An error for cynne, probably resulting from the overlapping of the two ens in handwriting.

    From Wiktionary

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