UMBELLIFORM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling or in the form of an umbel

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

Pertainym:

umbel (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)

Credits