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Definition of Cymes
1. cyme [n] - See also: cyme
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cymes
Literary usage of Cymes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Shrub, 1-1.5 m. high; leaves soft-downy beneath, the pointed lobes diverging,
unequally toothed ; stipules bristle-form ; cymes small, slender-peduncled ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"P. cymes with the marginal fis, sterile and enlarged 16. tomentosum KF. ... Lvs.
and cymes larger, inore tender and not adapted for forcing. On. 15, p. 196. ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"Cili- to many-fld. cymes; stamens orange-colored: caps, with 3 ¡rings. Ga.
Seems not yet in cult.; very desirable.—H. ¡m. Linn. Perennial with ascending sts ..."
4. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"V. Auric'ulai DO. ; cymes lax, fruit broadly ovoid turgid narrowly grooved in
front, fertile cell not corky, empty cells contiguous inflated, calyx with one ..."
5. Forest flora of British Burma by Sulpice Kurz (1877)
"Flowers sometimes unisexual, cymes axillary, rarely leaf- opposed. Leaves compound.
All part* glabrous (or the petioles ami cymes often ..."
6. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Flowers on slender pedicels, in lax compound trichotomous pedunculate glabrous
corymbose terminal and axillary cymes. Corolla-tube -J- in. long, ..."
7. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman, Daniel Cady Eaton (1860)
"Shrubs, with pinnate leaves, and white flowers, in ample terminal cymes. 1. ...
Flowers in terminal cymes, small, white ; the marginal ones occasionally ..."
8. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"Shrub or small tree: branchlets cymes and petioles densely rusty-tomentose: leaves
membranaceous, broadly ovate, roundish, or narrow, obtuse, ..."
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