umbelliferous

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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.

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  • 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
 

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  1. from New Latin umbellifer, bearing an umbel, from umbella, umbel, + Latin ferre = English bear.
 

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/əmbɛˈlɪfərəs/
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