from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An umbelliferous plant.
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- n. Any plant of the family Apiaceae, also called Umbelliferae, whose inflorescence is an umbel, such as a carrot or celery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A plant producing an umbel or umbels.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, a plant of the order Umbelliferæ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae
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Other members of the umbellifer family draw in the beetles and the hoverflies, but nothing quite magnetises the invertebrate world like flowering hogweed.
In the Newcomb world, people and plants sometimes surreally hybridize, as in Girl at the Garden Centre in the Rain, in which a woman, mostly hidden beneath an outsized green-and-black striped umbrella, has grown into an umbellifer.
Paeonia sp., and umbellifer Pleurospermum uralensis, Myosotis sp., whilst the tundra includes Saxifraga tenuis, Dryas sp. and Thymus sp.
Angelica is an umbellifer, like carrot, pignut and hemlock.
The wasps can be encouraged by growing plants like cilantro, fennel and dill, members of the umbellifer family, which the adult wasps feed on.
I think you've got a giant hogweed, unintelligible a massive, 18-foot tall umbellifer that causes skin rashes on people if they don't respect it.
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