umbellate
IPA: ˈʌmbʌɫeɪt
adjective
- Having umbels.
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Examples of "umbellate" in Sentences
- -- The delicate, lace-like, umbellate flowers in all the woods.
- Flowers terminal in umbellate panicles, the umbellets opposite and each bearing
- Inflorescence terminal, racemose-umbellate: flowers opening before or with the leaves; many-flowered.
- This fact at once points to an analogy with the umbellate allies, and induces us to examine the insertion of the flowers more critically.
- Composition also includes a high mesophyl umbellate (Peucedanum morisonii) on chernozem soils with microphyllous deciduous woods (Betula pendula, Populus tremula).
- This has been observed in pelargoniums and in the Chinese primrose, in both of which the effect was to replace the umbellate form of inflorescence by a capitate one.
- M. Fournier mentions an instance in _Pelargonium grandiflorum_, where, owing to the lengthening of the axis, the pedicels, instead of being umbellate, had become racemose; and I owe to the kindness of Dr. Sankey
- _Trifolium repens_, &c. &c. Another illustration of the sort is that recorded by M. Fournier, wherein the usually umbellate inflorescence of _Pelargonium_ was, through the lengthening of the main stalk, transformed into a raceme.
- But as the flowers in this last plant are never strictly umbellate, and as I have met with specimens in which they are rather corymbose, I have no hesitation in referring Dampier's specimen, which many years ago I examined at Oxford, as well as Cunningham's, to
- This species, named Clianthus Dampieri by Cunningham, he characterises as having leaves of a slightly different form, but its principal distinction is in its having racemes instead of umbels; at the same time he confidently refers to Dampier's figure and description, both of which prove the flowers to be umbellate, as he describes those of his
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