UMBEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does umbel mean? 

• UMBEL (noun)
  The noun UMBEL has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: UMBEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UMBEL (noun)

Sense 1

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)