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
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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
Otherwise as in Scirpus.—Spikelets single or clustered or umbellate, usually involucrate with erect scale-like bracts, upon a leafy or naked stem; scales membranaceous, 1–3-nerved.
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
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 Angus Duncan Webster
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
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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