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UMBELLATE

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

• UMBELLATE (adjective)

Sense 1

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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

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Meaning:

Resembling an umbel in form

Synonyms:

umbel-like; umbellate

Similar:

bulging; convex (curving or bulging outward)

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