umbrella : Idioms & Phrases
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earleaved umbrella tree
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noun small erect deciduous tree with large leaves in coiled formations at branch tips
Magnolia fraseri.
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japanese umbrella pine
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noun tall evergreen having a symmetrical spreading crown and needles growing in whorls that resemble umbrellas at ends of twigs
Sciadopitys verticillata.
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Umbrella ant
(Zoöl.) , the sauba ant; so called because it carries bits of leaves over its back when foraging. Called alsoparasol ant .
Webster 1913
umbrella arum
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noun foul-smelling somewhat fleshy tropical plant of southeastern Asia cultivated for its edible corms or in the greenhouse for its large leaves and showy dark red spathe surrounding a large spadix
Amorphophallus rivieri; devil's tongue; snake palm.
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Umbrella bird
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noun black tropical American bird having a large overhanging crest and long feathered wattle
Cephalopterus ornatus.
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(Zoöl.) , a South American bird (Cephalopterus ornatus ) of the familyCotingidæ . It is black, with a large handsome crest consisting of a mass of soft, glossy blue feathers curved outward at the tips. It also has a cervical plume consisting of a long, cylindrical dermal process covered with soft hairy feathers. Called alsodragoon bird .
Webster 1913
umbrella fern
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noun large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia
fan fern; Gleichenia flabellata; Sticherus flabellatus.
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Umbrella leaf
(Bot.) , an American perennial herb (Dyphylleia cymosa ), having very large peltate and lobed radical leaves.
Webster 1913
umbrella magnolia
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noun small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches
umbrella magnolia; elkwood; Magnolia tripetala; elk-wood.
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umbrella pine
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noun medium-sized two-needled pine of southern Europe having a spreading crown; widely cultivated for its sweet seeds that resemble almonds
stone pine; Pinus pinea; European nut pine.
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umbrella plant
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noun rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems; colonizes stream banks in the Sierra Nevada in California
Peltiphyllum peltatum; Darmera peltata; Indian rhubarb.
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noun late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters
Eriogonum allenii.
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noun African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
umbrella plant; Cyperus alternifolius.
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umbrella sedge
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noun African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
umbrella plant; Cyperus alternifolius.
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Umbrella shell
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(Zoöl.) SeeUmbrella , 3.
Webster 1913
umbrella tent
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noun a small tent with a single supporting pole and radiating metal ribs
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Umbrella tree
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noun erect evergreen shrub or small tree of Australia and northern New Guinea having palmately compound leaves
Brassaia actinophylla; Schefflera actinophylla.
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noun small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches
umbrella magnolia; elkwood; Magnolia tripetala; elk-wood.
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(Bot.) , a kind of magnolia (M. Umbrella ) with the large leaves arranged in umbrellalike clusters at the ends of the branches. It is a native of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky. Other plants in various countries are called by this name, especially a kind of screw pine (Pandanus odoratissimus ).
Webster 1913
umbrella-shaped
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adjective satellite shaped in the form of an umbrella