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Chary, University Botany 2: Gymnosperms, Plant Anatomy, Genetics, Ecology, page 190, The plant bears small groups of two or three yellowish coloured flowers on an axillary cyme. 1906, Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (editors), Gentianaceæ, article in The New International Encyclopædia, The inflorescence is some form of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular.( botany ) 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.( spelt cime, obsolete, rare ) A “ head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.) an opening bud.( Received Pronunciation ) enPR: s?m, IPA (key): /sa?m/.cime ( in the obsolete first sense only, ).For considerably more information, see cyma, which is an etymological doublet. Borrowed from French cime, cyme ( “ top, summit ” ), from the Vulgar Latin *cima, from the Latin c?ma ( “ young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage ” ), from the Ancient Greek ? ( kûma, “ anything swollen, such as a wave or billow” “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant ” ), from ? ( kú?, “ I conceive”, “I become pregnant” in the aorist “I impregnate ” ).