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UMBEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("umbel" is a kind of...):
inflorescence (the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk)
Derivation:
umbellar (bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels)