cymes

Noun

cyme (plural cymes)

1. (obsolete, rare) A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
2. 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.
   • The inflorescence is some form of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular.1906, “Gentianaceæ”, in Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby, editors, The New International Encyclopædia
3. A cyma.