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Webster 1913 Edition


Umbel

Um′bel

,
Noun.
[L.
umbella
a little shadow, umbrella, dim. of
umbra
shade. See
Umbrella
.]
(Bot.)
A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.

Webster 1828 Edition


Umbel

UM'BEL

,
Noun.
[L. umbella, a screen or fan.]
In botany, a particular mode of inflorescence or flowering, which consists of a number of flower-stalks or rays, nearly equal in length, spreading from a common center, their summits forming a level, convex, or even globose surface, more rarely a concave one, as in the carrot. it is simple or compound; in the latter, each peduncle bears another little umbel, umbellet or umbellicle.
Umbel is sometimes called a rundle, from its roundness.

Definition 2024


umbel

umbel

English

Noun

umbel (plural umbels)

  1. (botany) A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre.

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