The Collaborative International Dictionary
Umbelliferous \Um`bel*lif"er*ous\, a. [Umbel + -ferous: cf. F. ombillif[`e]re.] (Bot.)
Producing umbels.
Of or pertaining to a natural order ( Umbellifer[ae]) of plants, of which the parsley, carrot, parsnip, and fennel are well-known examples.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context botany English) bearing umbels. 2 (context botany English) Pertaining to a member of the family Umbelliferae.
WordNet
adj. relating to or belonging to plants of the family Umbelliferae
Usage examples of "umbelliferous".
The common Caraway is a herb of the umbelliferous order found growing on many waste places in England, though not a true native of Great Britain.
It belongs to the particular group of umbelliferous plants which is endowed with balsamic gums, and with carminative essences appealing powerfully to the sense of smell.
I know of no case better adapted to show the importance of the laws of correlation in modifying important structures, independently of utility and, therefore, of natural selection, than that of the difference between the outer and inner flowers in some Compositous and Umbelliferous plants.
Not as he did now, looking at the seven hills asprawl with orange-tiled roofs, glitters of gold from gilded temple eaves, tall cypresses, umbelliferous pines, arched aqueducts, the deep blue and strongly flowing width of Father Tiber with the grassy plains of Martius and Vaticanus on either bank.
These are produced by the Coriander, an umbelliferous herb cultivated in England from early times for medicinal and culinary uses, though introduced at first from the Mediterranean.
They have a bitter taste, and their pungent smell is reminiscent of an umbelliferous rather than of a composite plant.
Here the flora was represented by large carpets of marine crystal, a little umbelliferous plant very good to pickle, which also bears the name of pierce-stone and sea-fennel.
This spiny plant, which at first sight might be taken rather for a thistle than a member of the umbelliferous order, is sometimes called by old English writers Sea Hulver and Sea Holme.
The old Roman name of Conium was Cicuta, which prevails in the mediaeval Latin literature, but was applied about 1541 by Gesner and others to another umbelliferous plant, Cicuta virosa, the Water Hemlock, which does not grow in Greece and southern Europe.
The name Water Hemlock is, though incorrectly, often popularly applied to several species of Cenanthe, the genus of the Water Dropworts, which of all the British umbelliferous plants are the most poisonous.
The Angelica Tree of America (Xanthoxylum Americanum, Mill), the Prickly Ash, as it is more generally named, is not allied to the umbelliferous Angelicas.