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Umbrella Plant

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Noun

1. darmera peltata, indian rhubarb, peltiphyllum peltatum, umbrella plant

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

2. eriogonum allenii, umbrella plant

late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters

3. cyperus alternifolius, umbrella plant, umbrella sedge

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Umbrella Plant

see synonyms of umbrella plant
noun
an African sedge, Cyperus alternifolius, having large umbrella-like whorls of slender leaves: widely grown as an ornamental water plant

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Umbrella Plant

see synonyms of umbrella plant
a common, cultivated, aquatic sedge (Cyperus alternifolius) having naked, triangular stems surmounted by an umbrellalike whorl of grasslike leaves and greenish spikelets
: also called umbrella palm

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Umbrella Plant

see synonyms of umbrella plant
n.
1. A sedge (Cyperus involucratus syn. C. alternifolius) native to Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands and widely cultivated as an ornamental, having leafless stems with a terminal umbrellalike cluster of long narrow bracts.
2. Any of various other plants having parts with an umbrellalike form.

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