Botany. Of a plant or flower: having a corolla arranged in a form resembling a butterfly (as in many leguminous plants such as sweet pea, vetch…

= umbellate, adj. 1. Of flowers, etc.

Of a flower: having a tubular shape or tubular parts; spec. having tubular florets. Obsolete.

Produced by or grown on umbelliferous plants.

Botany. Of flowers: Forming, arranged in, an umbel or umbels.

(of a flower) having a corolla arranged in a form resembling a butterfly; (also) denoting such a corolla; esp. as characteristic of leguminous plants…

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

= umbellated, adj.

Gathered into or forming a ball or mass; (Botany, of flowers) forming a compact head or cluster but not united (now rare).

having a long style.

Having a style of intermediate length. Cf. macrostylous adj. at macro-, comb._form affix 1b, microstylous, adj.

Having the form of an umbel.