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umbellate

[ uhm-buh-lit, -leyt, uhm-bel-it ]

adjective

  1. having or forming an umbel or umbels.


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Other Words From

  • umbel·lar umbel·lated adjective
  • umbel·late·ly adverb
  • sub·umbel·lar adjective
  • sub·umbel·late adjective
  • sub·umbel·lated adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of umbellate1

1750–60; < New Latin umbellātus, equivalent to Latin umbell ( a ) ( umbel ) + -ātus -ate 1
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Example Sentences

Flowers in a compound thyrse, very fragrant; pedicels mostly umbellate-clustered.

Peduncles terminal, often umbellate-clustered; in the first section mostly appearing lateral, but not really axillary.

Its large deep-red, umbellate blossoms are visible from afar gleaming among the green vegetation along the coast.

It differs from the other umbellate-flowered genera of the Lily family in not having its flowers jointed upon their pedicels.

Thus, a compound umbel is produced when the pedicels of an umbel are themselves umbellate.

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