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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