cyme

  • noun Botany a flower cluster with a central stem bearing a single terminal flower that develops first, the other flowers in the cluster developing on lateral stems. Compare with RACEME.

  — ORIGIN French, ‘summit, unopened flower head’, from Latin cyma.

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