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Cyma vs Coma - What's the difference?

cyma | coma |

In botany|lang=en terms the difference between cyma and coma

is that cyma is (botany) = (l) while coma is (botany) a tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

As nouns the difference between cyma and coma

is that cyma is (architecture) a (l) of the (l), (l) in (l), whose (l) consists of a (l) and a (l) line; an (l) while coma is a state of sleep from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma or coma can be (astronomy) a cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.

cyma

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l)

Noun

  • (architecture) A (l) of the (l), (l) in (l), whose (l) consists of a (l) and a (l) line; an (l).
  • (botany) = (l)

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l), (l)

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l), (l) * (l) * (l) * (l), (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    References

    * “ ? Cyma]” listed on page 1,302 of volume II (C) of '' [1st ed., 1893]
    ? Cyma''' ( anything swollen, a billow, a wave, a waved or ogee moulding, the young sprout of a cabbage (in which sense also L. ''c?ma'', whence the botanical use).] [¶] '''1.''' ''Arch.'' A moulding of the cornice, the outline of which consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee. [¶] ''Cyma recta'': a moulding concave in its upper part, and convex in its lower part. ''Cyma reversa'' (rarely ''inversa''): a moulding convex in its upper part, and concave in its lower part. [¶] '''1563''' Shute ''Archit.'' Ci b, 4 partes geue also to Sima reuersa. ''Ibid.'' Ciij b, That second parte which remayneth of the Modulus ye shall geue vnto Syma. '''1703''' Moxon ''Mech. Exerc.'' 267 Scima reversa..Scima recta, or Ogee. '''1726''' Leoni ''Alberti’s Archit.'' II. 34 b, A Cima inversa of the breadth of two minutes. '''1761''' ''Brit. Mag.'' II. 642 The true cima, or cimaise. '''1850''' Leitch ''Müller’s Anc. Art.'' § 249. 258 A base of several plinths and cymas. [¶] '''2.''' ''Bot.'' = Cyme 1 and 2. [¶     '''1706''' Phillips (ed. Kersey), ''Cyma''..the young Sprout of Coleworts, or other Herbs: a little Shoot, or Branch: But it is more especially taken by Herbalists for the top of any Plant. '''1775 Lightfoot ''Flora Scotia (1792) I. 236 The cyma, or little umbel which terminates the branches. * Sturgis, Russel. Cyma'', in ''A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical,... MacMillan Co.:1901.[http://books.google.com/books?id=tQgFAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA6-PA738&lpg=RA6-PA738&dq=cyzicenus+architecture&source=web&ots=A64-fbGro6&sig=2q3mn-xfcqY_sNg3DGO3R_7NWB0
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    • * * “ ?cyma]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l) ----

    coma

    English

    (wikipedia coma)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A state of sleep from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
    • Related terms
    * comatose
    See also
    * persistent vegetative state * brain death

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (comae)
  • (astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
  • (optics) A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that should be points.
  • (botany) A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.

    • Anagrams

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