cyma recta

1. 1.

   a cyma in which the upper section is concave and the lower section is convex

   Broadercyma

Questions about cyma recta

What does cyma recta mean?

cyma recta means "a cyma in which the upper section is concave and the lower section is convex".

Is cyma recta a common word?

cyma recta is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.