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Umbilicate
Navel-like, with a small central hollow or depression. Depressed in the centre, like one end of an apple. Having the appearance of being pitted or indented; shaped like an umbilicus; used to describe some skin conditions. With a small depression, like a navel, in the centre. Dimpled, pitted, or shaped like a navel. Said of…
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Umbellule
Diminuitive of umbel.
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Umbelliform
In the shape of an umbel.
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Umbelliferous
Bearing umbels.
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Umbellet
A secondary (ultimate) umbel within a compound umbel. A small umbel, formed upon the apex of a division of an umbel.
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Umbellate
With umbels. Umbelled; pertaining to umbers.
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Umbel
A (racemose or indefinite) inflorescence with branches arising from more or less the same point on a common peduncle. (In a simple umbel, each ray terminates in a flower; in a compound umbel, each ray itself bears an umbel, the latter being called a partial umbel). An inflorescence in which the pedicels originate from one…
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Typotype
A specimen upon which an illustration was established; an informal but useful term coined by Stearn (1973) (Linnaeus based quite a few of his descriptions of species on the only material that he had seen of such species: an illustration published elsewhere).
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Typification
Assigning a type to a new taxon.
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Type species
The type of a genus.
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