Definition of Cymous

1. cymose [adj] - See also: cymose

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cymous

cymogenes
cymograph
cymographs
cymoid
cymol
cymolite
cymols
cymophane
cymophanes
cymophanous
cymoscope
cymose
cymosely
cymotrichous
cymotrichy
cymous (current term)
cymrite
cymrites
cymule
cymules
cymæ
cymæ inversæ
cymæ rectæ
cymæ reversæ
cynanche
cynanches
cynancum
cynanthropies
cynanthropy
cynarctomachy

Literary usage of Cymous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"Sts. branched, becoming cymous, brittle, round, jointed, leafy, and remarkably distinguished by tho hairy ridge. Fla. small, white. ..."

2. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"Sts. branched, becoming cymous, brittle, round, jointed, leafy, and remarkably distinguished by the hairy ridge. Fis. small, white. ..."

3. The American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure, Life by Alphonso Wood (1875)
"Flowers in cymous panicles. July, August. Fig. 45. ... Glabrous and glaucous ; Ivs. ovate-lanceolate ; fls. in cymous, leafless panicles, ..."

4. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"Sts. branched, becoming cymous, brittle, round, jointed, leafy, and remarkably distinguished by tho hairy ridge. Fis. small, white. ..."

5. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"Capsule cylindrical or ovoid, elongated, opening ht top by 10 teeth, oo seeded. Flowers cymous, white. Fig. 44. { Pétala about as long as the sepals Noi. ..."

6. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1851)
"The flowers are borne in terminal cymous heads, several blossoms in each. A flower is two inches across, lilac coloured. It is an ornamental species, ..."

7. Wood's Illustrated Plant Record: With King's Check Tablets, for the Rapid ...by Alphonso Wood, Franklin Hiram King by Alphonso Wood, Franklin Hiram King (1877)
"Cyme ; a cluster more or less con- densed and level-topped, whose central fls. are earliest. cymous panicle, a loose open cyme, as of duckweed. ..."

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