umbrella : Idioms & Phrases


earleaved umbrella tree

  • noun small erect deciduous tree with large leaves in coiled formations at branch tips
    Magnolia fraseri.
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japanese umbrella pine

  • 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 also parasol ant.
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umbrella arum

  • 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

  • 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 family Cotingidæ. 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 also dragoon bird.
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umbrella fern

  • 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.
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umbrella magnolia

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.
  • noun late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters
    Eriogonum allenii.
  • 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

  • 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

  • . (Zoöl.) See Umbrella, 3.
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umbrella tent

  • noun a small tent with a single supporting pole and radiating metal ribs
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Umbrella tree

  • noun erect evergreen shrub or small tree of Australia and northern New Guinea having palmately compound leaves
    Brassaia actinophylla; Schefflera actinophylla.
  • 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).
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umbrella-shaped

  • adjective satellite shaped in the form of an umbrella
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