Umbel Definition

ŭmbəl
umbels
noun
A cluster of flowers with stalks of nearly equal length which spring from about the same point, like the ribs of an umbrella.
Webster's New World
adjective
Designating a family (Apiaceae, order Apiales) of hollow-stemmed, herbaceous, dicotyledonous plants having umbels, including celery and parsley.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Umbel

Noun

Singular:
umbel
Plural:
umbels

Origin of Umbel

  • New Latin umbella from Latin parasol diminutive of umbra shadow

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from Latin umbella ("umbrella").

    From Wiktionary

Umbel Sentence Examples

  • The tufted head or umbel is likened by Pliny to a thyrsus.

  • At the base of the general umbel in umbelliferous plants a whorl of bracts often exists, called a general involucre, and at the base of the smaller umbels or umbellules there is a similar leafy whorl called an involucel or partial involucre.

  • When the axis is so shortened that the secondary axes arise from a common point, and spread out as radii of nearly equal length, each ending in a single flower or dividing again in a similar radiating manner, an umbel is produced, as in fig.

  • In Eryngium the shortening of the pedicels changes an umbel into a capitulum.

  • In Saxifraga umbrosa (London-pride) and in the horse-chestnut we meet with a raceme of scorpioid cymes; in sea-pink, a capitulum of contracted scorpioid cymes (often called a glomerulus); in laurustinus, a compound umbel of dichasial cymes; a scorpioid cyme of capitula in Vernonia scorpioides.

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Words Starting With

UUMUMB

Words Ending With

LELBEL

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