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 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 Vries, Hugo de
Its large deep-red, umbellate blossoms are visible from afar gleaming among the green vegetation along the coast.
Flowers terminal in umbellate panicles, the umbellets opposite and each bearing 3 flowerets.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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
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 Gray, Asa
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