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Example sentences for "cymes"

Lexicographically close words:
cyma; cymatium; cymbal; cymbals; cyme; cymose; cynanche; cynic; cynical; cynically
  1. In broad, compound cymes at the ends of the branches; flowers white and rather larger than those of P.

  2. Here there are scorpioid cymes of pairs of flowers, each pair consisting of an older and a younger flower.

  3. In such cases the cymes are described as spiked, racemose, or panicled, according to circumstances.

  4. Perennials, with small white or purplish flowers, in corymbed cymes or clusters.

  5. Flowers chiefly blue or white, in one-sided cymes or false racemes, which are mostly bractless and coiled from the apex when young, as in the Borage Family.

  6. Shrubs, with 4-sided branchlets, opposite serrate leaves, and loose cymes of small flowers on axillary peduncles.

  7. Leaves simple; cymes simple and umbel-like; pome fleshy, globular, sunk in at the attachment of the stalk.

  8. So very many flowers especially adapted to the bumblebee are in bloom when the cymes of the waterleaf uncoil, like the borages, from their immature roll, that some special inducement to attract this benefactor were surely needed.

  9. A South European herb, with cymes of small red blossoms (Centranthus ruber).

  10. A handsome tree (Tilia Europæa), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves.

  11. Thyrse or Thyrsus, a compact and pyramidal panicle of cymes or cymules, 79.

  12. The flowers are produced in cymes or compound umbels (see fig.

  13. The leaves are of a bluish green, and the flowers of a greenish yellow; the latter growing in cymes at the end of the branches.

  14. The flowers are erect, and produced in cymes or heads; and the petals are united into a tube with a spreading limb.

  15. Showy shrubs, with evergreen leaves, and cymes of white or red flowers, which require a stove or greenhouse in England.

  16. The flowers, which measure more than an inch across, are pure white in colour, and are clustered in cymes of five to nine.

  17. The primary stalks of these cymes are five in number.

  18. The flowers are small and white, grouped in little cymes of three.

  19. Herbs with slender stems; narrow, simple, entire, exstipulate leaves; and cymes of regular flowers.

  20. Small marsh plants with radical, glandular leaves; and cymes of small, white, regular flowers.

  21. The rather large white flowers are in terminal cymes of from three to six.

  22. Herbs, mostly aromatic, with square stems, opposite leaves, and whorls or cymes of irregular flowers.

  23. The cultivated variety of this shrub, known as the Snowball Tree, has large, globular cymes of flowers, all of which are large and barren.

  24. Those of the Stonecrop group usually have cymes of flowers with perianth leaves in whorls of five, and stamens in two whorls.

  25. Herbs or shrubs with alternate leaves, and axillary cymes of regular flowers.

  26. The flowers are small, and collected together in dense, purple cymes on the top of long, angular stalks.

  27. Herbs or shrubs with opposite, simple, exstipulate leaves, often dotted with glands; and cymes of conspicuous yellow, regular flowers.

  28. This is an erect plant, from two to four feet high, bearing densely-crowded cymes of small, creamy-white flowers from June to August.

  29. Flowers in cymes or corymbs, cavities of mature fruit as many as the styles, seeds more than 4 mm.

  30. April or in May in cymes which are sessile or nearly so, flowers white, numerous, and generally about 0.

  31. Cymes of flowers and fruit broad and open.

  32. A pretty native species, growing about 2 feet high, with ovate leaves having glandular dots and terminal clustered cymes of yellow flowers.

  33. Although one of our commonest native trees, the Elder must rank amongst the most ornamental if only for its large compound cymes of white or yellowish-white flowers, and ample bunches of shining black berries.

  34. This can be recommended as a distinct and beautiful shrub, with cymes of white flowers that are produced in plenty.

  35. The first mentioned grows about a foot high, with rather large leaves, and cymes of white flowers on long slender footstalks; while S.

  36. It rarely grows more than 4 feet high, with small cymes of flowers, that are devoid of the neutral flowers of that species.

  37. Equally handsome whether white- garlanded cymes of blossoms or scarlet berries, waxen when partly ripe.

  38. Raising its creamy cymes of blossoms in every ditch where there is a little moisture.

  39. Some of them have numerous small white flowers, in cymes and panicles; foliage generally ovate, acute, and serrated.

  40. The flowering cymes of the common centaury are very frequently employed as a substitute for the medicinal gentian, so well known as a valuable tonic.

  41. Folly took hold of my time, On pleasure I perched, to my woe; I was snared in The Evil One's lime And now all his promptings I know.

  42. And there they prospered for a blessed time Until Elimelech in his lordly prime, Hasting those cattle-spoilers to pursue, The ambuscading sons of Anak slew.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cymes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.