American Heritage Dictionary
(1)
Century Dictionary
(1)
GNU Webster's 1913
(1)
WordNet
(1)
Elsewhere on the web
He must have been a Homoeopathic prover with a vengeance; but has left no useful record of his experiments--the more's the pity--for our guidance when prescribing its diluted forms CARAWAY The common Caraway is a herb of the umbelliferous order found growing on many waste places in England, though not a true native of Great Britain.— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
The herb is of the umbelliferous order, and its fruit chemically furnishes "anethol," a volatile empyreumatic oil similar to that contained in the Anise, and Caraway.— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
It is then an aromatic plant of the umbelliferous order, but differing from the rest of its tribe in producing bright yellow flowers Botanically, it is the Anethum foeniculum_, or "small fragrant hay" of the Romans, and the Marathron of the Greeks.— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
The first aspect of this human plant--umbelliferous, judging by the fluted blue cap which crowned it, with a stalk encased in greenish trousers, and bulbous roots swathed in list shoes--offered to the eye a flat and faded countenance, which certainly betrayed nothing poisonous.— Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
PILOSUS Benth.; a pretty little umbelliferous plant.— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year
Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed
You can expect to see this word about once a year.
Recently looked upwits · cemetery · kingship · Crista · biped |
Recent Favoritespygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms |
Recent Pronunciationsthese grunts every eight hours · haul it off to our darkest dungeon · send for a doctor · forget what witticism you were originally going to insert here because you've just banged your knee on your desk · the rest will come naturally |