Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant in the parsley family.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a plant of the order Umbelliferæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant producing an umbel or umbels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any plant of the family
Apiaceae , also calledUmbelliferae , whoseinflorescence is anumbel , such as acarrot orcelery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae
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Examples
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Other members of the umbellifer family draw in the beetles and the hoverflies, but nothing quite magnetises the invertebrate world like flowering hogweed.
Country diary 2010
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In the Newcomb world, people and plants sometimes surreally hybridize, as in Girl at the Garden Centre in the Rain, in which a woman, mostly hidden beneath an outsized green-and-black striped umbrella, has grown into an umbellifer.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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In the Newcomb world, people and plants sometimes surreally hybridize, as in Girl at the Garden Centre in the Rain, in which a woman, mostly hidden beneath an outsized green-and-black striped umbrella, has grown into an umbellifer.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Paeonia sp., and umbellifer Pleurospermum uralensis, Myosotis sp., whilst the tundra includes Saxifraga tenuis, Dryas sp. and Thymus sp.
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Angelica is an umbellifer, like carrot, pignut and hemlock.
Coffee Fads « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006
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The wasps can be encouraged by growing plants like cilantro, fennel and dill, members of the umbellifer family, which the adult wasps feed on.
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I think you've got a giant hogweed, unintelligible a massive, 18-foot tall umbellifer that causes skin rashes on people if they don't respect it.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Rational Review 2009
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