cyme

Meaning

Noun

• A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
• 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.
• = cyma
• Misspelling of senna

Origin

• Borrowed from French cime, cyme, from the Vulgar Latin *cima, from the Latin cȳma ("young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage"), from the Ancient Greek κῦμα ("anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant"), from κύω. For considerably more information, see cyma, which is an etymological doublet.
• An error for cynne, probably resulting from the overlapping of the two ens in handwriting.