Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.
Defn: Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole.
Defn: A radiating part of the flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
The flower-bearing stem is tall; the flowers are borne in whorls on the axis as in arrow-head, on whorled branchlets as in water plantain or in an umbel as in Butomus (fig.
The numerous small, greenish-white flowers grow in a round cluster or umbel at the summit of the stem.
The flowers are in an umbel at the top of a scape 6 to 20 in.
The flowers are in a loose umbelat the top of a scape from 3 to 8 in.
It has a spherical root, slender stem, three leaves compounded of three leaflets each, and numerous tiny white flowers in an umbel above them.
Compound umbel of Common Dill (Anethum graveolens), having a primary umbel a, and secondary umbels b, without either involucre or involucel.
In Eryngium the shortening of the pedicels changes an umbel into a capitulum.
They are both strong-smelling plants with bulbous roots, radical leaves, and flowers arranged in an umbel with membranous spathes.
The middle flowers of each secondary umbel are perfect and almost sessile, but the outer ones are stalked and staminate.
The flowers are white, and form a flat umbel with two sharply-pointed bracts at its base.
Thus, a compound umbel is produced when the pedicels of an umbel are themselves umbellate.
The flowers are sessile, in little rounded heads; the whole inflorescence forming an irregular umbel or a loose panicle.
The umbel consists of five rays, each of which is forked, with very short branches; and the glands within the cup are nearly round.
The flowers are white, generally tinged with pink, and form a large terminal umbel of from sixteen to forty rays, with two or three narrow primary bracts, and several fine secondary ones.
The flowering branches, towards the top of the plant, generally radiate from one point, forming an umbel of from two to five or more rays that proceed from the axil of one or more leaves.
In all three species the central flowers of each secondary umbel are perfect and shortly stalked, while the outer ones are on longer stalks, and usually staminate.
In the ordinary form, which is so common in fields, the leaflets are pinnatifid, with acute segments; and the central flowers of each umbel are purple, while the outer ones are white.
The maritime variety differs from this in having fleshy leaves, and the umbel convex above when in fruit.
The top of the stem bears from one to three umbels; the general umbel being naked, or rarely furnished with a solitary leaflet[11].
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The same author[1] records a similar instance in the umbel of Seseli coloratum, where the place of the flowers was occupied by stalked tufts of leaves.
The bract and pedicels of the umbel all spring from the extremity of a peduncle 1½in.
Flowers in a compound umbel on the end of the stalk which is naked, long and triangular.
Large umbel of yellow flowers, no involucre and no involucels.
Umbels usually compound, in which case the secondary ones are termed umbellets; the whorl of bracts which often subtends the general umbel is the involucre, and those of the umbellets the involucels.
The flower-stem is about eighteen inches high, swollen near the middle, and terminates in a globular umbel of greenish-white flowers.
The centralumbel of seeds is always the largest, and is considered much the best.
The corymb and the umbel being more or less level-topped, bringing the flowers into a horizontal plane or a convex form, the ascending order of development appears as Centripetal.
The shortening of these pedicels, so as to render the flowers sessile or nearly so, converts a raceme into a Spike, and a corymb or an umbel into a Head.
When the stalks which in the simple umbel are the pedicels of single flowers themselves branch into an umbel, a Compound Umbelis formed.
A radiating part of the flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
Leaves at base of umbel broad, resembling those of the inflorescence =Spurge, Euphorbia lucida.
Leaves at base of umbel narrow, resembling those on the stem =Spurge, Euphorbia esula.
Umbel solitary, terminal and erect on a long peduncle (4-8 dm.
Principal branches of the umbel 7 or more; fruit ovate to broadly elliptical (summer) --31.
Three to twelve inches high, bearing anumbel of small greenish-white flowers, subtended by several small lanceolate to linear bracts.
This is more or less silky pubescent; its wings are not spreading, its leaflets are narrower, and the bract of the umbel is sessile.
Inclose this budded umbelin tarlatan gauze and it will bloom days after its fellow-blooms have fallen, anticipating its consummation, but no pods will be seen upon this cluster.
Some they transfer, of course, from the larger staminate flowers to the smaller pistillate ones as they crawl over one umbel of the carrion-flower, then alight on another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "umbel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ament; blossom; cone; head; spike
