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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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
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
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
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