Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Architecture Resembling a cyma.
  • adjective Botany Resembling a cyme.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the form of a cyme.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Having the form of a cyme.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Having the form of a cyme.
  • adjective architecture Resembling a cyma.

Etymologies

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cyme +‎ -oid

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cyma +‎ -oid

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Examples

  • Cerro Moro is a low sulphidation epithermal vein type of deposit containing simple, single veins to complex vein systems with spur and cymoid loop structures.

    Mineweb - Daily news headlines 2010

  • Cerro Moro is a low sulphidation epithermal vein type of deposit containing simple, single veins to complex vein systems with spur and cymoid loop structures.

    Mineweb - Daily news headlines 2010

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