umbel

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin umbella (“umbrella”). Compare umbrella, composed of the same etymological elements but formed independently.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʌmbəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ʌmbəl

Noun

umbel (plural umbels)

(botany) A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre.

Related terms

Translations

type of flower cluster

Bulgarian: сенник m (sennik)
Catalan: umbel·la f
Czech: okolík (cs) m
Danish: skærm (da) c
Dutch: scherm (nl) n
Esperanto: umbelo
Faroese: skjól n
Finnish: sarja (fi)
French: ombelle (fr) f
German: Dolde (de) f
Hungarian: ernyő (hu), ernyős virágzat
Irish: umbal m
Manx: umbyl m
Ottoman Turkish: شمسیه (şemsiye)
Persian: چتر (fa) (čatr), چترک (čatrak)
Polish: baldach (pl) m
Portuguese: umbela (pt) f
Romanian: umbelă (ro) f
Spanish: umbela (es) f
Welsh: wmbel m

Anagrams

'umble, Blume

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