cymose
Americanadjective
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bearing a cyme or cymes.
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of or of the nature of a cyme.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- cymosely adverb
Etymology
Origin of cymose
First recorded in 1800–10, cymose is from the Latin word cymōsus full of shoots. See cyme, -ose 1
Example Sentences
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Follicles many-seeded; a little scale at the base of each.—Chiefly perennial, smooth, and thick-leaved herbs, with the flowers cymose or one-sided.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Flowers.—Blue or white; small, usually not more than two or three lines across; borne in showy thyrsoid or cymose clusters.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Seeds usually cylindrical.—Herbs or shrubs, with cymose yellow flowers.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
B. cordifolium, 4 ft., has large cordate leaves, and heads of rich orange flowers in cymose panicles in July.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
To this form the terms trichasial and polychasial cyme have been applied; but these are now usually designated cymose umbels.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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