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Umbel definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UM'BEL, n. [L. umbella, a screen or fan.]
In botany, a particular mode of inflorescence or flowering, which consists of a number of flower-stalks or rays, nearly equal in length, spreading from a common center, their summits forming a level, convex, or even globose surface, more rarely a concave one, as in the carrot. it is simple or compound; in the latter, each peduncle bears another little umbel, umbellet or umbellicle.
Umbel is sometimes called a rundle, from its roundness.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin umbella, from Latin, umbrella — more at umbrella Date: 1597 a racemose inflorescence typical of the carrot family in which the pedicels arise from about the same point to form a flat or rounded flower cluster — see inflorescence illustration

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Bot. a flower-cluster in which stalks nearly equal in length spring from a common centre and form a flat or curved surface, as in parsley. Derivatives: umbellar adj. umbellate adj. umbellule adj. Etymology: obs. F umbelle or L umbella sunshade, dimin. of UMBRA

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Umbel Um"bel, n. [L. umbella a little shadow, umbrella, dim. of umbra shade. See Umbrella.] (Bot.) A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.