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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CYME, CYMA, n. [Gr., fetus, to swell.] Literally, a sprout, particularly of the cabbage. Technically, an aggregate flower composed of several florets sitting on a receptacle, producing all the primary peduncles from the same point, but having the partial peduncles scattered and irregular; all fastigiate, or forming a flat surface at the top. It is naked or with bractes.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin cyma, from Latin, cabbage sprout, from Greek kyma swell, wave, cabbage sprout, from kyein to be pregnant; akin to Sanskrit ?vayati it swells, grows Date: 1794 an inflorescence in which each floral axis terminates in a single flower; especially a determinate inflorescence of this type containing several flowers with the first-opening central flower terminating the main axis and subsequent flowers developing from lateral buds — see inflorescence illustration

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Bot. an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single terminal flower that develops first, the system being continued by the axes of secondary and higher orders each with a flower (cf. RACEME). Derivatives: cymose adj. Etymology: F, var. of cime summit, ult. f. Gk kuma wave

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.