The ‘head’ of a herb, flower, etc., esp. as gathered for culinary or medicinal purposes; a cyme; an ear of corn, a young sprout, etc. Obsolete.

Usually plural. The part of a plant growing above ground as distinct from the root; esp. of a vegetable grown for the ‘root’, as turnip-tops. Also…

With reference to plants and fungi. The compact round or conical mass of leaves characteristic of certain types of cabbage, lettuce, etc.; (also)…

A little or miniature head; (Botany) each of the parts of a flowering plant that together constitute a compound inflorescence; an umbellule…

A part of the flower of an orchid (perhaps the helmet or galea).

The heart or head of a cabbage, cauliflower, or broccoli. Obsolete. rare.

Botany. = cyme, n.1 1 2.

(cime.) A ‘head’ (of unexpanded leaves, etc.). Obsolete. rare.

Botany. The rounded head of any of various stalked structures, as the pileus of a fungus, the apothecium of a moss, etc.