cyme

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cyme /sʌɪm/

▶noun Botany a flower cluster with a central stem bearing a single terminal flower that develops first, the other flowers in the cluster developing as terminal buds of lateral stems. Compare with raceme.

– derivatives
cymose adjective.

– origin C18 (denoting the unopened head of a plant): from Fr., lit. ‘summit’, from a pop. var. of L. cyma.