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umbel
Part of speech: NounIn bot., an inflorescence in which numerous stalked flowers arise from one point, as in the carrot or hemlock.
Usage examples "umbel":- Flowers yellow, in a sort of umbel, with 3 or more flowerets on long peduncles. - "The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines", T. H. Pardo de Tavera.
- I have found three dead bees thus entrapped in a single umbel of blossoms, having been exhausted in their struggles for escape; and a search among the flowers at any time will show the frequency of this fatality, the victims including gnats, flies, crane- flies, bugs, wasps, beetles, and small butterflies. - "My Studio Neighbors", William Hamilton Gibson.
- A litel something to go on with at furst wood be very agrebbel for indeed Mr. Pindargrasp its uncommon low water with your umbel servant at this presant moment. - "Castle Richmond", Anthony Trollope.