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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany and zoology, same as umbellate.

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  • adjective bearing umbels

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Examples

  • From the borders of the paths ascended tall grasses, as in the month of May, and large, umbellated flowers, mistaken about the season; in the hedges, privets and briars had come into bloom again, in the buzz of the last bees; and one could see flying persistent butterflies, to whom death had given several weeks of grace.

    Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886

  • The black taxodiums, standing thickly, usurped the ground, their umbellated crowns covered with hoary epiphytes, whose pendulous drapery shut out the sun, that would otherwise have nourished on that rich soil a luxuriant herbaceous vegetation.

    The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

  • I moved amidst the huge pyramidal trunks of the cypresses, whose thick umbellated foliage, meeting overhead, shut out both sun and sky.

    The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

  • The leaf of this plant, which bears a white umbellated blossom, is applied to reduce swellings.

    The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795

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