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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cyme \Cyme\ (s?m), n. [L. cyma the young sprount of a cabbage,
fr Gr ???, prop., anything swollen, hence also cyme, wave,
fr ??? to be pregnant.] (Bot.)
A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or
determinate type differing from a corymb chiefly in the
order of the opening of the blossoms.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cyme
n : more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the
central or terminal flower opens first
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