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

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 Gray, Asa

Another illustration of the sort is that recorded by M. Fournier, wherein the usually umbellate inflorescence of Pelargonium was, through the lengthening of the main stalk, transformed into a raceme.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

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

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

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