Akin to Old Frisian keme, Old Saxon kumi, Old High German cumi ( “ arrival ” ), Gothic ???? ( qums ), Old English cuman ( “ to come ” ). Old English Etymology 1 įrom Proto-Germanic *kumiz ( “ arrival ” ), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- ( “ to go, come ” ). 55 What Rubarb, Cyme, or what Purgatiue drugge Would scowre these English hence. 55, 1st Folio), supposed to be an error for cynne, Senna. 1605 Shaks.
“ cyme” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary Īn error for cynne, probably resulting from the overlapping of the two ens in handwriting.Ĭyme (Shaks.cyme in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G.106 This is what we call a cyme-joint, a cohesion of two curved surfaces. 4) 250 The meadow-sweet, with its crowded cymes. 3. 55 The arrangement of the flowers in the elder is called a cyme. to compound inflorescences of this type forming a more or less flat head. 1794 Martyn Rousseau’s Bot. (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. ( cyme.) A species of inflorescence wherein the primary axis bears a single terminal flower which develops first, the system being continued by axes of secondary and higher orders which develop successively in like manner a centrifugal or definite inflorescence: opposed to Raceme. cyme ( plural cymes) (spelt cime, obsolete, rare) A head (of unexpanded leaves, etc.) an opening bud. In cymose inflorescence, flowers are borne terminally on the floral axis and shows determinate growth of the main axis. In racemose, the main axis continues to grow indefinitely and the flowers are borne laterally. arrangement of flowers around the main axis. Sallet, The Buds and tender Cime of Nettles by some eaten raw, by others boiled. 2. Racemose and cymose are two types of inflorescence, i.e. “ Cyme” listed on page 1303 of volume II (C) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles Ĭyme ( səim). Also 8 cime. † 1. ( cime.) A ‘head’ (of unexpanded leaves, etc.).The flower cluster is a cyme (terminal flower is the most advanced), is terminal within the bud and may contain up to six individual flowers.Īrchitecture: cyma - see cyma References Warrington, Apples: Botany, Production and Uses, page 157, The plant bears small groups of two or three yellowish coloured flowers on an axillary cyme. Chary, University Botany 2: Gymnosperms, Plant Anatomy, Genetics, Ecology, page 190, The inflorescence is some form of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular. 1906, Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (editors), Gentianaceæ, article in The New International Encyclopædia,.( 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.( spelt cime, obsolete, rare ) A “ head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.) an opening bud.( Received Pronunciation ) enPR: sīm, IPA ( key): /saɪm/.cime ( in the obsolete first sense only, ).For considerably more information, see cyma, which is an etymological doublet. Inflorescence with tightly packed flowers that lack pedicels (individual stalks) born on the enlarged tip of the peduncle (main stalk of the inflorescence).Borrowed from French cime, cyme ( “ top, summit ” ), from the Vulgar Latin *cima, from the Latin cȳma ( “ young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage ” ), from the Ancient Greek κῦμα ( kûma, “ anything swollen, such as a wave or billow” “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant ” ), from κύω ( kúō, “ I conceive”, “I become pregnant” in the aorist “I impregnate ” ). If it is, see if you can identify it by type. Next time you harvest fruit in your garden, or pick flowers for the table, take a moment to determine if that “flower” is really an inflorescence.
This is especially evident in some of the cherry or grape tomato cultivars where the fruits are borne in clusters. If we take a closer look at the cyme type, there can be simple cymes and dichotymously-branched cymes where the apex of the peduncle branches more or less equally into two. For example, the tomato may deliver simple individual flowers or inflorescences generally of the raceme or cyme types. And this makes classifying them an interesting puzzle. In many cases, the individual type of inflorescence can be further modified with regard to symmetry and overall shape. Keep in mind that some inflorescences are distinguished by the order in which the individual flowers bloom. Keying out inflorescence types can be puzzling, vexing, and enjoyable all at the same time, especially if you enjoy solving logic riddles! Pictured on the pages that follow are some types of inflorescences that you encounter routinely, but this is really the tip of the iceberg.