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  • noun Plural form of umbo.

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Examples

  • Cones from 10 to 17 cm. long, short-pedunculate, ovoid-conic; apophyses lustrous brown-ochre or fuscous brown, elevated into thick, often reflexed, beaks with obtuse mutic umbos; seeds with large nuts and adnate striated dark gray or fuscous brown wings.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • A true terminal umbo rests on the surface of the underlying scale, although several species with terminal umbos show the first stages of the dorsal umbo.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

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