Cincinnus

·add. ·noun A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis;

— called also scorpioid cyme.

cincinnus
cincinnus, i. m. [kindr. with Gr. κίκιννος and Lat. cirrus; Sanscr. cicura, crinis, Bopp, Gloss. 124...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
cincinnus
cincinnus ī, m , κίκιννος, curled hair, a lock of hair, curl: cincinnorum fimbriae. — Fig., in rhet...

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