Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cyme

Cyme (s?m) , noun

[Latin cyma the young sprount of a cabbage, from Greek {not transcribed}, prop., anything swollen, hence also cyme, wave, from {not transcribed} to be pregnant.]

(Botany) 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.