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Definition of Scorpioid cyme
1. Noun. A cyme with flowers or branches alternating in opposite ranks.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scorpioid Cyme
Literary usage of Scorpioid cyme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1905)
"B, & scorpioid cyme, and C, a Helicoid cyme, both in plan. ... J, a, Scorpioid
cyme passing into a ... M, a displaced double scorpioid cyme, in plan. ..."
2. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"An inflorescence which is formed in this manner, as will be seen from what has
already been said, cannot properly be described as a scorpioid cyme, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... so that the inflorescence in this case abo ought not to be regarded as a
scorpioid cyme. off in the figure) and bears a le if. i'roni the axil of this ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the scorpioid cyme the flowers arc arranged alternately in a double row along
one side of the false axis (fig. 19), the bracts when developed forming a ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the scorpioid cyme the flowers are arranged alternately in a double row along
one side of tlie false axis (fig. 19), the bracts when developed forming a ..."
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