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

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umbellate

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

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

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.

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