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

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  • But this is what we call a cyme-joint, a cohesion of two curved surfaces, formed in a reflex curve which admits the solvent most reluctantly, or, indeed, not at all,...
  • Successive repetitions of this sympodial branching on alternate sides of the apparent axis produce a scor - pioid cyme, which is usually developed with more or less...
  • But this is what we call a cyme-joint,
  • Now there is already a received and useful botanical word, 'cyme'
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