Word Meanings - UMBELLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small or partial umbel; an umbellule.

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• UMBELLAR
  Of or pertaining to an umbel; having the form of an umbel.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• UMBELLATE; UMBELLATED
  Bearing umbels; pertaining to an umbel; umbel-like; as, umbellate plants or flowers.
• PARTIALISM
  Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• UMBELLULE
  An umbellet.
• UMBELLIC
  Pertaining to, or obtained from, certain umbelliferous plants; as, umbellic acid. Umbellic acid. Anisic acid. A yellow powder obtained from umbelliferone.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• PARTIAL
  Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole. Partial differentials, Partial differential coefficients, Partial differentiation, etc.
• UMBELLET
  A small or partial umbel; an umbellule.
• UMBEL
  A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• UMBELLULARIA
  A genus of deep-sea alcyonaria consisting of a cluster of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• UMBELLIFER
  A plant producing an umbel or umbels.
• UMBELLIFERONE
  A tasteless white crystalline substance, C9H6O3, found in the bark of a certain plant , and also obtained by the distillation of certain gums from the Umbelliferæ, as galbanum, asafetida, etc. It is analogous to coumarin. Called also hydroxy-
• PARTIALIZE
  To make or be partial.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• IMPARTIAL
  Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.
• IMPARTIALIST
  One who is impartial. Boyle.
• UNPARTIAL
  Impartial. Bp. Sanderson. -- Un*par"tial*ly, adv. Hooker.
• SELF-PARTIALITY
  That partiality to himself by which a man overrates his own worth when compared with others. Kames.
• IMPARTIALNESS
  Impartiality. Sir W. Temple.
• IMPARTIALLY
  In an impartial manner.