Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the general form of an umbrella, as a mushroom. See cut under
Agaricus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of anything that serves to shade, as a tree top, an umbrella, and the like; specifically (Bot.), having the form of an umbrella; umbrella-shaped.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having the form of anything that serves to shade, such as a
treetop or especially anumbrella .
Etymologies
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Latin umbraculum anything that furnishes shade, a bower, umbrella (diminutive of umbra a shade) + -form.
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erose commented on the word umbraculiform
(adj.) shaped like an umbrella
July 1, 2009