umbel
umbel
Definition
um·bel (um′bəl)
noun
a cluster of flowers with stalks of nearly equal length which spring from about the same point, like the ribs of an umbrella
Etymology: L umbella, parasol: see umbrella
adjective
designating a family (Apiaceae, order Apiales) of hollow-stemmed, herbaceous, dicotyledonous plants having umbels, including celery and parsley
umbel
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- flower: The umbels of small white flowers are often six inches across.
Converse of object
- have: Plants also may have many secondary umbels produced at any node on the stem below the primary umbel.
- produce: Plants also may have many secondary umbels produced at any node on the stem below the primary umbel.
Adjective modifier
- large: The large umbels of flowers produced by fennel in late summer are particularly attractive to hoverflies.
- dense: In summer dense umbels 10cm ( 4in ) across of 50 or more lilac-pink flowers are produced.
- flat: The flat umbels are indispensable between all the spike shaped flowers in the garden.
- loose: They provide a lovely shade of bright yellow flowers in star-like loose umbels good for naturalizing and cutting, and are attractive to butterflies.
- spherical: The tubular based flowers are bell, star or cup shaped which are borne in spherical umbels 1 - 10cm across.
- white: Although native to the Old World, these white lacy umbels are a familiar sight in the United States and Canada.
Noun used with modifier
- flower: There are several hundred seeds in each flower umbel.
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- umbilication
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