cyme
/saɪm/noun
- Botany a flower cluster with a central stem bearing a single terminal flower that develops first, the other flowers in the cluster developing as terminal buds of lateral stems【植】聚伞花序。比较RACEME.
派生词
cymose
adjective词源
early 18th cent. (denoting the unopened head of a plant)： from French, literally 'summit', from a popular variant of Latin cyma.