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Umbel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In botany, a particular mode of inflorescence or flowering, which consists of a number of flower-stalks or rays, nearly equal in length, spreading from a common center, their summits forming a level, convex, or even globose surface, more rarely a concave one, as in the carrot. it is simple or compound; in the latter, each peduncle bears another little umbel umbellet or umbellicle.

2. Umbel is sometimes called a rundle, from its roundness.

Umbel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.

Umbellar [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to an umbel; having the form of an umbel.

Umbellar [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to an umbel; having the form of an umbel.

Umbellate [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

UM'BELLATE ,

Umbellate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Bearing umbels; consisting of an umbel; growing on an umbel; as umbellate plants or flowers.

Umbellate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Umbellated

Umbellated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bearing umbels; pertaining to an umbel; umbel-like; as, umbellate plants or flowers.

Umbellet [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. UM'BELLET ,

2. UMBEL'LICLE, noun A little or partial umbel.

Umbellet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small or partial umbel; an umbellule.

Umbellic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, or obtained from, certain umbelliferous plants; as, umbellic acid.

Umbellifer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A plant producing an umbel or umbels.

Umbelliferone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A tasteless white crystalline substance, C9H6O3, found in the bark of a certain plant (Daphne Mezereum), and also obtained by the distillation of certain gums from the Umbelliferae, as galbanum, asafetida, etc. It is analogous to coumarin. Called also hydroxy-coumarin.

Umbelliferous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Producing the inflorescence called an umbel; bearing umbels; as umbelliferous plants.

Umbelliferous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Producing umbels.

2. Of or pertaining to a natural order (Umbelliferae) of plants, of which the parsley, carrot, parsnip, and fennel are well-known examples.

Umbellularia [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A genus of deep-sea alcyonaria consisting of a cluster of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base.

Umbellule [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An umbellet.