Umbelliferous

Word UMBELLIFEROUS
Character 13
Hyphenation um bel lif er ous
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Umbelliferous"

What do we mean by umbelliferous?

Bearing umbels. adjective

In botany, bearing an umbel or umbels; of or pertaining to the Umbelliferæ: as, an umbelliferous genus.

Producing umbels. adjective

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Umbelliferæ) of plants, of which the parsley, carrot, parsnip, and fennel are well-known examples. adjective

Bearing umbels adjective

Pertaining to a member of the family Umbelliferae adjective

Relating to or belonging to plants of the family Umbelliferae adjective

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The word "umbelliferous" in example sentences

Parsley is a member of the umbelliferous vegetable family, which contains powerful anticancer compounds. ❋ Earl Mindell (2008)

The OED calls it "A gum-resin mentioned by Roman writers; obtained from an umbelliferous plant called lāserpīcium or silphium"; the OLD entry is again omitting citations: ❋ Unknown (2005)

The undergrowth is simply hideous, consisting mainly of coarse reedy grass, monstrous docks, the large-leaved Polygonum cuspidatum, several umbelliferous plants, and a “ragweed” which, like most of its gawky fellows, grows from five to six feet high. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

This day I saw on the cavernous hill the woolly ACTINOTUS HELIANTHI, one of the most singular of umbelliferous plants; and, on descending to the base, a white variety of the COMESPERMA SYLVESTRIS, with smooth branches: unlike the kind observed in September, it did not grow above one foot high. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Plants put forth their blossoms as soon as the sun re-appeared; amongst others, the DIDISCUS PILOSUS Benth.; a pretty little umbelliferous plant. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Here the flora was represented by large carpets of marine crystal, a little umbelliferous plant very good to pickle, which also bears the name of pierce-stone and sea-fennel. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Had Alvarez allowed his eye to stray one entry beyond OED's kesh, dialect for kex, an umbelliferous plant, he would have come upon kesh-work with a cross reference to kish, Irish for a wicker basket, and by extension to a causeway built up on wicker baskets of earth or stone, and to a corduroy road. ❋ Tracy, Robert (1980)

The Water Parsnip (spelt also in old _Herbals_, Pasnep, and Pastnip, and called Sium) is an umbelliferous plant, [415] common by the sides of rivers, lakes, and ditches, with tender leaves which are "a sovereign remedy against gravel in the kidney, and stone in the bladder." ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

The Hemlock is an umbelliferous plant of frequent growth in our hedges and roadsides, with tall, hollow stalks, powdered blue at the bottom, whilst smooth and splashed about with spotty streaks of a reddish purple. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

This is also an umbelliferous plant, which grows commonly on the margins of ditches and rivers in many parts of England. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

The first of these is an umbelliferous herb, growing frequently in woods, having dull white flowers, in panicled heads, which are succeeded by roundish seeds covered with hooked prickles: the ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

It is an umbelliferous herb, which has been long of garden growth for kitchen uses. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

The SUMBUL root, which has recently been introduced into the French market, is the root of an umbelliferous plant, which is characterised by a strong odor of musk. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

Russian and Rumanian steppes; in the spring the country is adorned with the flowers of the crocus, orchis, iris, tulip and other bulbous plants, which in summer give way to tall grasses, umbelliferous growths, _dianthi_, ❋ Various (N/A)

ANISE (_Pimpinella Anisum_), an umbelliferous plant found in Egypt and the Levant, and cultivated on the continent of Europe for medicinal purposes. ❋ Various (N/A)

There was _zamouta_, an umbelliferous plant, the seed of which is used in coffee, and _habat-assoba_ for putting in bread; coriander, chili, fennel, and _helf_, a plant very like tall cress, which is used in cookery and also raw, and which we liked as ❋ Mabel Bent (N/A)

There are several other umbelliferous plants which are poisonous. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

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