Definitions for cymes

cymes cyme

Spelling: [sahym]
IPA: /saɪm/

Cymes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in cymes (cemsy).

Definitions for cymes

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 cymes

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

Examples for cymes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for cymes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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