Definitions for cyme

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Spelling: [sahym]
IPA: /saɪm/

Cyme is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in cyme (cemy).

Definitions for cyme

noun

  1. an inflorescence in which the primary axis bears a single central or terminal flower that blooms first.
  2. a flat or convex inflorescence of this type.

Origin of cyme

1595-1605; Latin cȳma cabbage sprout Greek kŷma; see cyma

Examples for cyme

The term dichasium has also been applied to this form of cyme.

It is not generally admitted that Homer was from cyme, for many dispute about him.

In Fig. 214, some are seen around the margin of the cyme in Hydrangea.

A Glomerule is a cyme still more compacted, so as to imitate a head.

The people of cyme were uncertain whether they ought to comply.

Ardys with his wife and daughter fled to cyme, and there he lived in such poverty that he worked as a wheelwright.

As soon as he heard of his approach, he abandoned the ground, and fled northwardly to the city of cyme, and sought refuge there.

cyme, with the other cities on that coast, revolted to him through fear.

Then they marched to the north, and founded Smyrna, Myrina, and cyme.

In the coming century cyme of Aeolis would give a wife to a Phrygian king.

Word Value for cyme
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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