UMBRELLA PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does umbrella plant mean? 

• UMBRELLA PLANT (noun)
  The noun UMBRELLA PLANT has 3 senses:

1. rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems; colonizes stream banks in the Sierra Nevada in California

2. late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters

3. African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves

  Familiarity information: UMBRELLA PLANT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UMBRELLA PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems; colonizes stream banks in the Sierra Nevada in California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Darmera peltata; Indian rhubarb; Peltiphyllum peltatum; umbrella plant

Hypernyms ("umbrella plant" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("umbrella plant" is a member of...):

Darmera; genus Darmera; genus Peltiphyllum; Peltiphyllum (one species)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eriogonum allenii; umbrella plant

Hypernyms ("umbrella plant" is a kind of...):

eriogonum (any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cyperus alternifolius; umbrella plant; umbrella sedge

Hypernyms ("umbrella plant" is a kind of...):

sedge (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)

Holonyms ("umbrella plant" is a member of...):

Cyperus; genus Cyperus (type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions)