Of flowers: Having a cup-like blossom.

Botany. Bearing flowers arranged in umbels; of or belonging to the order of Umbelliferæ.

= umbellate, adj. 1. Of plants.

Specific technical senses. Botany. Designating various plants or trees which are pyramid-shaped or have a pyramid-like or conical inflorescence or…

Botany. Of plants: Having flowers in umbels.

Of a flower: star-shaped. Also of a plant: having such flowers. Cf. starry, adj. 4. Obsolete.

Consisting of plants with umbellate flowers.

wearing a hoop-petticoat; having a flower of this shape (see sense 2 above).

attributive. Bearing large flowers; esp. designating large-flowered cultivars of ornamental plants.

Bell-flowered. Often in combination, as blue-belled.

Horticulture. Of a tree: having a dense arrangement of branches arising from the top of the trunk. Of a flower: having a compact rounded shape. Cf. mo…

Having flowers in pairs.

In full multiflora rose. A Japanese rose, Rosa multiflora, with clusters of white or pink flowers; any of the cultivated varieties developed from…