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UMBELLATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does umbellate mean?
• UMBELLATE (adjective)
The adjective UMBELLATE has 2 senses:
1. bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels
2. resembling an umbel in form
Familiarity information: UMBELLATE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
umbellar; umbellate
Pertainym:
umbel (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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Resembling an umbel in form
Synonyms:
umbel-like; umbellate
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