UMBEL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("umbel" is a kind of...):

inflorescence (the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk)

Derivation:

umbellar (bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels)

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