umbel

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The small purple flower which grows in the middle of the umbel has been found beneficial for the cure of epilepsy.

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  1. noun A flat-topped or rounded flower cluster in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point, as in the geranium, milkweed, onion, and chive.

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  • The funniest bit, though, is the wide-eyed wonder with which the word 'umbel' is introduced and discussed. —  Garden Rant
  • The peduncle and pedicels of each umbel are slender and green. —  Find Me A Cure
  • UMBEL as a vocabulary, only a few of the sources linked to UMBEL have the umbel: superClassOf relationship and one (bibo) has isAligned. —  AI3:::Adaptive Information
  • Other distinctions might be applied as well: pim_contact - PIM (personal information management) Contacts ontology sioc - Socially Interlinked Online Communities ontology umbel - Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer ontology —  AI3:::Adaptive Information
  • If there was an external class mapping in the source with one of the four possible predicates of umbel: isAligned, we noted the source and predicate and wrote it to a simple CSV (comma delimited) file. —  AI3:::Adaptive Information
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  1. New Latin umbella, from Latin, parasol, diminutive of umbra, shadow.

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  1. = French ombelle = Spanish umbela = Portuguese Italian umbella, from New Latin umbella, an umbel, from Latin umbella, a sunshade, parasol, umbrella, diminutive of umbra, a shade, shadow: see umbra.
 

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