Associations to the word «Cyme»

Wiktionary

CYME, noun. (spelt cime) (obsolete) (rare) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
CYME, noun. (botany) A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it. Contrast raceme.
CYME, noun. (architecture) = cyma
CYME, noun. Erroneous form of senna

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope