umbel

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌmbəl/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmbəl

Noun

umbel (plural umbels)

2. (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

• umbellaster
• umbellet
• umbellule
• Umbelliferae
• umbelliferous

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

Sundanese

Sundanese register set
lemes	olol, umbel
lemes ka sorangan	{{{les}}}
lemes ka batur	{{{leb}}}
loma	lého
cohag	{{{co}}}

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦸꦩ꧀ꦧꦼꦭ꧀ (umbel).

Noun

umbel (Sundanese script ᮅᮙ᮪ᮘᮨᮜ᮪)

1. snot (mucus from the nose)