NOUN
- small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches
- erect evergreen shrub or small tree of Australia and northern New Guinea having palmately compound leaves
How To Use umbrella tree In A Sentence
- Birds are numerous, from the “scrub fowl” which dwells in the dim jungle and constructs of decaying leaves and wood and light loam the most trustworthy of incubators, and wastes no valuable time in the dead-and-alive duty of sitting, to the tiny sun-bird of yellow and purple, which flits all day among scarlet hibiscus blooms, sips nectar from the flame-tree, and rifles the dull red studs of the umbrella tree of their sweetness. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
- If you've got sun for half a day your options are widened to those plants with broad glossy green leaves such as philodendrons, monsteras and umbrella trees.
