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cyme.

A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/saɪm/Received-Pronunciation
  1. A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.

    obsolete · rare
  2. A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it.

  3. A cyma.

Where this word comes from

] Borrowed from French cime, cyme (“top, summit”), from Vulgar Latin *cima, from Latin cȳma (“young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage”), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant”), from κύω (kúō, “to conceive”, “to become pregnant”; in the aorist “to impregnate”). For considerably more information, see cyma, which is an etymological doublet. Compare also Frankish *kīmō (“sprout”), from Proto-Germanic *kīmô, whence German Keim (“sprout”).

noun
  1. Misspelling of senna.

    alt-of · misspelling
Where this word comes from

An error for cynne, probably resulting from the overlapping of the two ens in handwriting.

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