umbellate

American  

[uhm-buh-lit, -leyt, 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

Etymology

Origin of umbellate

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

Example Sentences

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 Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

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

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

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 Gray, Asa

Allium.—Hardy bulbs of the garlic family, some species of which are ornamental; the inflorescence is umbellate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

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 Webster, Angus Duncan