Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having, forming, or resembling an umbel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bearing umbels; arranged in umbels; umbel-like: as, umbellate plants, flowers, or clusters.
- In zoöl, having an umbel, as a polyp; umbelliferous; having the shape of an umbel; umbelliform.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Bearing umbels; pertaining to an umbel; umbel-like.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling an umbel in form
- adjective bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels
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Examples
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Composition also includes a high mesophyl umbellate (Peucedanum morisonii) on chernozem soils with microphyllous deciduous woods (Betula pendula, Populus tremula).
Kazakh upland 2008
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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.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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M. Fournier mentions an instance in _Pelargonium grandiflorum_, where, owing to the lengthening of the axis, the pedicels, instead of being umbellate, had become racemose; and I owe to the kindness of Dr. Sankey
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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_Trifolium repens_, &c. &c. 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.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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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.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Flowers terminal in umbellate panicles, the umbellets opposite and each bearing
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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-- The delicate, lace-like, umbellate flowers in all the woods.
John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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This species, named Clianthus Dampieri by Cunningham, he characterises as having leaves of a slightly different form, but its principal distinction is in its having racemes instead of umbels; at the same time he confidently refers to Dampier's figure and description, both of which prove the flowers to be umbellate, as he describes those of his
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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But as the flowers in this last plant are never strictly umbellate, and as I have met with specimens in which they are rather corymbose, I have no hesitation in referring Dampier's specimen, which many years ago I examined at Oxford, as well as Cunningham's, to
Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832
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Inflorescence terminal, racemose-umbellate: flowers opening before or with the leaves; many-flowered.
Find Me A Cure Mukul 2010
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