a. Bot. [ad. L. cȳmōs-us, f. cȳma: see -OSE.] Bearing cymes, cymiferous; of the nature of a cyme; arranged in a cyme. (of an inflorescence = centrifugal or definite; opposed to racemose.)
1807. J. E. Smith, Phys. Bot., 311. In the cymose plants.
1869. Oliver, Elem. Bot., I. vii. 83. Forms of inflorescence in which the peduncle, or axis, itself terminates in a flower are termed definite or cymose.
Hence Cymosely adv., in the manner of a cyme.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 242. Flowers … cymosely panicled.
