umbellate

American  

[uhm-buh-lit, -layt, uhm-bel-it] / ˈʌm bə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, ʌmˈbɛl ɪt /

adjective

1. having or forming an umbel or umbels.

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Other Word Forms

• subumbellar
  adjective
• subumbellate
  adjective
• subumbellated
  adjective
• umbellar
  adjective
• umbellated
  adjective
• umbellately
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of umbellate

1750–60; < New Latin umbellātus, equivalent to Latin umbell ( a ) ( see umbel) + -ātus -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

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umbellate

Flowers greenish, 5-parted, solitary or in umbellate clusters in the axils.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

Its large deep-red, umbellate blossoms are visible from afar gleaming among the green vegetation along the coast.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Flowers umbellate on a scape, few or many.

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

This has been observed in pelargoniums and in the Chinese primrose, in both of which the effect was to replace the umbellate form of inflorescence by a capitate one.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters

Flowers terminal in umbellate panicles, the umbellets opposite and each bearing 3 flowerets.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas

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