umbelliferous

Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Wikipedia.

umbelliferous

of, relating to, or belonging to the Umbelliferae, a family of herbaceous plants and shrubs, typically having hollow stems, divided or compound leaves, and flowers in umbels: includes fennel, dill, parsley, carrot, celery, and parsnip

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

Tokyo, Japan, July 22, 2005 - (JCNN) - Takara Bio (TSE: 4974) announced on July 20 that it has developed a method to industrially produce chalcones, the active ingredients of Angelica keiskei Koidzumi, an umbelliferous perennial plant indigenous to Japan.

Takara Bio Establishes Innovative Method to Commercially Produce Chalcones

americanum, the legume Psorelea coryfolia and the Umbelliferous plant Ammi majus, have been used for medicinal purposes in Native American, North African, Hindu and Chinese civilizations since ancient times (Diawara et al., 1997, 2000).

Antifungal constituents of Northern prickly ash, Zanthoxylum americanum Mill

These include many herbs, particularly umbelliferous flowering types as the floral heads are actually many small flowers held together.

Luring beneficial insects to your garden; create a garden that is friendly to beneficial insects and let nature control the pests that eat your cabbages and roses

Although not an unbridled admirer of that alarmingly vivid umbelliferous root, I find that it has more appeal than the stick.

PASSING THOUGHTS: Too much stick and not enough carrot

The breeze-floating foliage that surmounts the lank twisted stems of his umbelliferous trees in A Landscape near Tivoli, and the umber fell behind them, recede into a blue-tinged haze.

Dutch Italianisers at Dulwich

Guo et al., Inhibitory Potential of Herbal Medicines on Human Cytochrome P450-mediated Oxidation: Properties of Umbelliferous or Citrus Crude Drugs and their Relative Prescriptions, Jpn.