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, without too long application. From Wordnik.com. [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference
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 regularity (Fig. 10). From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
But this is what we call a cyme-joint. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
Now there is already a received and useful botanical word, 'cyme'. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
In late winter he produces cyme-like panicles of urn-shaped chartreuse flowers. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
And yet the name linden was writ large on those trees, -- on the beautiful gray bark, the alternate method of twig arrangement, the fat red winter buds, which shone in the sunshine like rubies, and especially on the little cymes of pendulous, pea-like fruit, each cyme attached to its membranaceous bract or wing. From Wordnik.com. [Some Winter Days in Iowa] Reference
Or Life's top cyme!. From Wordnik.com. [Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses] Reference
Þri ampres were an mancyn ær his to cyme. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts] Reference
"tô gecýðanne, hwanan eówre cyme syndon.". From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf] Reference
"tō gecȳðanne, hwanan ēowre cyme syndon.". From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf] Reference
What rhubarb, cyme, or what purgative drug. From Wordnik.com. [Macbeth] Reference
The flowers are in a close, woolly cyme, the ovary inferior, the perianth sixparted, the sepals narrower than the petals, the stamens three, alternately with the petals on long filaments; the style is solitary, threadlike, its stigma slightly lobed; the fruit, a three-celled, many seeded, rounded capsule. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
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