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UMBELLATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does umbellate mean? 

UMBELLATE (adjective)
  The adjective UMBELLATE has 2 senses:

1. bearing or consisting of or resembling umbelsplay

2. resembling an umbel in formplay

  Familiarity information: UMBELLATE used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UMBELLATE (adjective)


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)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Resembling an umbel in form

Synonyms:

umbel-like; umbellate

Similar:

bulging; convex (curving or bulging outward)


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