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UMBELLAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does umbellar mean?
• UMBELLAR (adjective)
The adjective UMBELLAR has 1 sense:
1. bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels
Familiarity information: UMBELLAR used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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)
Derivation:
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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