umbellate

ADJECTIVE
  1. bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels
  2. resembling an umbel in form
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How To Use umbellate In A Sentence

  • These are blooming on small plants with 3’ long umbellate flowers heavily spotted with red-maroon, with a red-purple lip.
  • Composition also includes a high mesophyl umbellate (Peucedanum morisonii) on chernozem soils with microphyllous deciduous woods (Betula pendula, Populus tremula). Kazakh upland
  • _Trifolium repens_, &c. &c. Another illustration of the sort is that recorded by M. Fournier, wherein the usually umbellate inflorescence of _Pelargonium_ was, through the lengthening of the main stalk, transformed into a raceme. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • M. Fournier mentions an instance in _Pelargonium grandiflorum_, where, owing to the lengthening of the axis, the pedicels, instead of being umbellate, had become racemose; and I owe to the kindness of Dr. Sankey Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • This species, named Clianthus Dampieri by Cunningham, he characterises as having leaves of a slightly different form, but its principal distinction is in its having racemes instead of umbels; at the same time he confidently refers to Dampier's figure and description, both of which prove the flowers to be umbellate, as he describes those of his Expedition into Central Australia
  • When conditions are favorable the plant produces a single, thick stem that contains hundreds of yellow umbellate flowers producing numerous seeds per umbellate.
  • This has been observed in pelargoniums and in the Chinese primrose, in both of which the effect was to replace the umbellate form of inflorescence by a capitate one. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Milkweed fruits would in pairs (each flower produces 2), on stalks, and almost always in umbellate inflorescences rather than on something spicate like yours looks.
  • -- The delicate, lace-like, umbellate flowers in all the woods. John Keble's Parishes
  • This fact at once points to an analogy with the umbellate allies, and induces us to examine the insertion of the flowers more critically. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
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