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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) umbel
an inflorescence in which a number of flower stalks or pedicels, nearly equal in length, spread from a common center.

Etymology: (1590–1600; < L umbella a sunshade, der. of umbra shadow, shade)

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1. (noun) 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

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1. (noun) umbel
a kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule

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