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Umbrella Plant

Definition: Umbrella Plant

Umbrella Plant

Noun

1. 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 California Sierra Nevada.

2. Late-blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters.

3. African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Umbrella Plant

Synonym: umbrella sedge (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Umbrella Plant

English words defined with "umbrella plant": Cyperaceaefamily Cyperaceaesedge family. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Umbrella Plant

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

umbrella plant

64
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Umbrella Plant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-l-l-l-m-n-p-r-t-u"

-4 letters: penumbral, plantable, untamable.

-5 letters: ambulant, ambulate, ampullae, ampullar, arbutean, labellum, lamellar, malapert, maternal, meatball, parallel, parament, parental, parlante, patellar, paternal, penumbra, planulae, planular, prenatal, prunable, prunella, pubertal, rambutan, trapball, turnable, umbellar, umbrella.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Umbrella Plant


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6D 62 72 65 6C 6C 61      50 6C 61 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101101 01100010 01110010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100001 00100000 01010000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#109 &#98 &#114 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#97 &#32 &#80 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006D 0062 0072 0065 006C 006C 0061      0050 006C 0061 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

557968847178786725078678086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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