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A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, differing from a corymb chiefly in the order of the opening of the blossoms.

obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.

See Carvacrol.

Hydroxy cymene. Same as Carvacrol.

Same as Cymene.

See Scimiter.

n one side of the rachis, usually causing it to curl; -- called also a uniparous helicoid cyme.

See Cymene.

branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called also scorpioid cyme. --Cin*cin"nal (#), a.

A cyme. See Cyme. Cyma recta, or Cyma, a cyma, hollow in its upper part and swelling below. -- Cyma reversa, or Ogee, a cyma swelling out on the upper part and hollow below.

A liquid organic base, C10H13.NH2, derived from cymene.

Producing cymes.

Having the form of a cyme.

Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.

A small cyme, or one of very few flowers.

A volatile, terpenelike oil extracted from the eucalyptus, and consisting largely of cymene.

A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.

an distance being taken as unity. Jupiter's beard. (Bot.) (a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red blossoms (Centranthus ruber). (b) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); -- so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove. Prior. (c) the cloverlike Anthyllis Barba-Jovis. -- Jupite…

A handsome tree (Tilia Europæa), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.

erican shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.