umbel
pronunciation
How to pronounce umbel in British English:
UK ['ʌmbəl]
How to pronounce umbel in American English:
US ['ʌmbəl]
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- Noun:
- flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the center
Word Origin
- umbel (n.)
- 1590s in botany, from Latin umbella "parasol, sunshade," diminutive of umbra (see umbrage).
Example
- 1. Inflorescence a compound dichasium or an umbel , leaf-opposed .
- 2. Inflorescence a solitary umbel or panicle of umbels , flowers never arranged in verticils .
- 3. Inflorescence a terminal umbel or umbel-like raceme , 1 -- 10-flowered ; bract usually absent .
- 4. Inflorescence terminal , a raceme or solitary flower , very rarely an umbel or corymb ; bracts leaflike .
- 5. Inflorescence a terminal spike , umbel , raceme , panicle , or flowers solitary .