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Cyme vs. Cincinnus — What's the Difference?

Cyme vs. Cincinnus — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Cyme and Cincinnus

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Cyme

A usually flat-topped or convex flower cluster in which the main axis and each branch end in a flower that opens before the flowers below or to the side of it.

Cincinnus

(botany) A type of monochasium on which the successive axes arise alternately in respect to the preceding one; a scorpioid cyme.

Cyme

A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.

Cincinnus

A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis; - called also scorpioid cyme.

Cyme

(botany) 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.
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Cyme

(architecture) = cyma

Cyme

Misspelling of senna

Cyme

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.

Cyme

More or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first

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