Cyme vs. Corymb

Cymenoun

|obsolete|rare}} A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.

Cymenoun

(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. Contrast raceme.

Cymenoun

(architecture) = cyma

Cymenoun

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.

Cymenoun

more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first

Corymbnoun

(botany) A cluster of flowers with a flat or convex top.

Corymbnoun

A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

Corymbnoun

flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first

Corymb

Corymb is a botanical term for an inflorescence with the flowers growing in such a fashion that the outermost are borne on longer pedicels than the inner, bringing all flowers up to a common level. A corymb has a flattish top with a superficial resemblance towards an umbel, and may have a branching structure similar to a panicle.