"Cyme" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... And yet the name linden was writ large on those trees,—on the beautiful gray bark, the alternate method of twig arrangement, the fat red winter buds, which shone in the sunshine like rubies, and especially on the little cymes of pendulous, pea-like fruit, each cyme attached to its membranaceous bract or wing. Of course, if the pedestrians had been in the midst of rich woods and there found a trunk of great girth and rough bark, surrounded by several handsome young stems with close-fitting coats, ...
— Some Winter Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell
... the cymatium (derived from the word cyme), meaning wave-like. This form must be in two curves, one inwardly and ...
— Carpentry for Boys • J. S. Zerbe |
