'Cyme' definitions:
Definition of 'cyme'
(from WordNet)
noun
More or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first
Definition of 'Cyme'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]