umbellate
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of umbellate
1750–60; < New Latin umbellātus, equivalent to Latin umbell ( a ) ( see umbel) + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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I have also met with it in Trifolium repens, in the umbellate variety of the common primrose, and in the scarlet geranium.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
They are individually small, of a creamy-white colour, and produced in long, umbellate racemes, and which when fully developed, from their weight and terminal position, are tilted gracefully to one side.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
This fact at once points to an analogy with the umbellate allies, and induces us to examine the insertion of the flowers more critically.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
Seed suspended.—Perennial herbs with radical leaves; those of the stem 2 or 3 together, opposite or whorled, and forming an involucre remote from the flower; peduncles 1-flowered, solitary or umbellate.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Its large deep-red, umbellate blossoms are visible from afar gleaming among the green vegetation along the coast.
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