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UMBELLIFORM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does umbelliform mean?
• UMBELLIFORM (adjective)
The adjective UMBELLIFORM has 1 sense:
1. resembling or in the form of an umbel
Familiarity information: UMBELLIFORM used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling or in the form of an umbel
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
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)
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