cymose
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cymose
(of an inflorescence) having growing parts that end in flowers, as a result of which the combined growth depends on the production of lateral growing points; the oldest part of the inflorescence is thus at the apex.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005