Umbellularia

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A genus of apetalous trees, of the order Laurineæ and tribe Litseaceæ. It is distinguished from Litsea (the type) by extrorse anthers in the fourth row, and forms, in its stamens, a connecting-link to the other chief tribe, Perseaceæ. The principal species, U. Californica, the spice-tree (which see), mountain-laurel, or Californian bay-tree, is a tall smooth Californian tree, reduced southward and in the mountains to a small shrub. It bears alternate veiny and odorous evergreen leaves, and numerous short-pedicelled yellowish-green flowers, each umbel at first included in a caducons globose involucre, and followed by one or two roundish dark-purple drupes. A second species occurs in Mexico.
2. n. In zoology, a genus of deepsea alcyonarian polyps, having the polypites clustered in an umbel on top of the polypidom, and a long slender stalk somewhat bulbous at the base, as in U. encrinus or U. grœnlandica.

Wiktionary

1. n. A taxonomic genus within the family Lauraceae — the California laurel or Oregon myrtle.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) A genus of deep-sea alcyonaria consisting of a cluster of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. aromatic evergreen trees of Pacific coast