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What is a cyma?

What is a cyma? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) A moulding of the cornice, wavelike in form, whose outline consists of a concave and a convex line; an ogee.
  2. (botany) = cyme
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Cyma Azyz made an impressive speech and mentioned that the role of UN in keeping book reading alive was a commendable job.
From a high central half-round, the skirt descends along cyma or ogee curves to cusps that set off shallow arches with small half-rounds in the middle.
The parapet above, including its cyma and corona, is one half the height of the parapet below.
Cyma Zarghami, president of the Nickelodeon Group, said she preferred to wait until the cable channel had more information about how its audience used mobile devices.
To enable the alignment of the pieces, the eave under piece is placed, at the cyma limit, on a fillet of mortar.
The corona is bordered by the so-called Doric cyma, or beak-moulding, distantly resembling the scotia of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

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