Botany, a genus of plants belonging to the triandra class, and in the natural method ranking under the 4th order, Gramineae. See Botany Index.

Cynthus, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of the island Delos, so high as to overshadow the whole island. On this mountain Latona brought forth Apollo and Diana: hence the epithet Cynthus (Virgil), and Cynthia (Lucan, Statius).