adjective
- of, relating to, or having the form of a cyme (a type of flower cluster in which the main axis terminates in a flower)
Usage: botany; technical
Examples
- The plant displays a cymous inflorescence with flowers arranged in a branching pattern.
- Botanists classified the flower cluster as cymous based on its terminal flowering structure.
- The cymous arrangement of blossoms is characteristic of this species.
- In contrast to racemose flowers, cymous flowers have a determinate growth pattern.