a. Bot. [f. as prec. + -OSE.] Bearing flowers in clusters or racemes, which develop successively from the base upward.
1880. Gray, Struct. Bot., v. 144, note. The kinds of Inflorescence are all reducible to two types … the Indeterminate and Determinate…. Also named by Eichler the Cymose and Botryose types.
