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Definition of "umbellifer" [um•bel•li•fer]

  • An umbelliferous plant. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "umbellifer" in a sentence
  • "Other members of the umbellifer family draw in the beetles and the hoverflies, but nothing quite magnetises the invertebrate world like flowering hogweed."
  • "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."
  • "Paeonia sp., and umbellifer Pleurospermum uralensis, Myosotis sp., whilst the tundra includes Saxifraga tenuis, Dryas sp. and Thymus sp."