umbellate

American  

[uhm-buh-lit, -leyt, uhm-bel-it] / ˈʌm bə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, ʌmˈbɛl ɪt /

adjective

1. having or forming an umbel or umbels.

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Other Word Forms

• subumbellar adjective
• subumbellate adjective
• subumbellated adjective
• umbellar adjective
• umbellated adjective
• umbellately adverb

Etymology

Origin of umbellate

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

Example Sentences

They are individually small, of a creamy-white colour, and produced in long, umbellate racemes, and which when fully developed, from their weight and terminal position, are tilted gracefully to one side.

From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan

Flowers umbellate on a scape, few or many.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Allium.—Hardy bulbs of the garlic family, some species of which are ornamental; the inflorescence is umbellate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

Flowers terminal in umbellate panicles, the umbellets opposite and each bearing 3 flowerets.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

Otherwise as in Scirpus.—Spikelets single or clustered or umbellate, usually involucrate with erect scale-like bracts, upon a leafy or naked stem; scales membranaceous, 1–3-nerved.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa