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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, an umbel.
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NLM readers will be pleased to note how many traditional elements have been preserved in the liturgy there; e.g. virtually everything is sung in Latin, the altar is set up against the Holy Sepulchre so that priest and faithful together face versus Deum, and a large traditonal canopy as well as an umbella are used in the theophoric procession at the end of Mass.
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Etymology: Italian ombrella, modification of Latin umbella, diminutive of umbra
Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010
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There I will have a set group of parents that know me, kids that know me and hopefully will fall under the safety umbella of the school.
Was up Bergie Albanian Pete 2009
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There I will have a set group of parents that know me, kids that know me and hopefully will fall under the safety umbella of the school.
Archive 2009-03-01 Albanian Pete 2009
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Keep the umbella back and gently pour fresh water brought to a rolling boil over the umbrella in the top container.
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Keep the umbella back and gently pour fresh water brought to a rolling boil over the umbrella in the top container.
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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Involuc. temu« nale, j-phyli.foliol. umbella longioribus •
Summa plantarum 1789
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Habitat in CznVioliac floribus, praefertim cynoglojfo omphan lodsy circa aequinoSiiufn vernum freqiiens. umbella - 479.
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I'be umbella or umbel» where a number of fmall fiower - ilalks rife from the fame center to an equal height and form an even furface at top.
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S* culmo-triquetro nudo, umbella foliofa proIi« fera« fplculia fubrorondia* Gramep cyperoU dea orieotale.
Caroli a Linné ... Systema vegetabilivm secvndvm classes, ordines, genera, species cvm characteribvs et differentiis. Editio decima quarta praecedente longe avctior et correctior cvrante Io. Andrea Mvrray .. Murray, Johann Andreas, 1740-1791 1784
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