umbrella : Idioms & Phrases

• noun small erect deciduous tree with large leaves in coiled formations at branch tips
  Magnolia fraseri.
  

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• noun tall evergreen having a symmetrical spreading crown and needles growing in whorls that resemble umbrellas at ends of twigs
  Sciadopitys verticillata.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the sauba ant; so called because it carries bits of leaves over its back when foraging. Called also parasol ant.

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• noun foul-smelling somewhat fleshy tropical plant of southeastern Asia cultivated for its edible corms or in the greenhouse for its large leaves and showy dark red spathe surrounding a large spadix
  Amorphophallus rivieri; devil's tongue; snake palm.
  

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• noun black tropical American bird having a large overhanging crest and long feathered wattle
  Cephalopterus ornatus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a South American bird (Cephalopterus ornatus) of the family Cotingidæ. It is black, with a large handsome crest consisting of a mass of soft, glossy blue feathers curved outward at the tips. It also has a cervical plume consisting of a long, cylindrical dermal process covered with soft hairy feathers. Called also dragoon bird.

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• noun large Australasian fern with fanlike repeatedly forked fronds; sometimes placed in genus Gleichenia
  fan fern; Gleichenia flabellata; Sticherus flabellatus.
  

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• (Bot.), an American perennial herb (Dyphylleia cymosa), having very large peltate and lobed radical leaves.

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• noun small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches
  umbrella magnolia; elkwood; Magnolia tripetala; elk-wood.
  

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• noun medium-sized two-needled pine of southern Europe having a spreading crown; widely cultivated for its sweet seeds that resemble almonds
  stone pine; Pinus pinea; European nut pine.
  

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• noun 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
  Peltiphyllum peltatum; Darmera peltata; Indian rhubarb.
  
• noun late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters
  Eriogonum allenii.
  
• noun African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
  umbrella plant; Cyperus alternifolius.
  

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• noun African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
  umbrella plant; Cyperus alternifolius.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Umbrella, 3.

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• noun a small tent with a single supporting pole and radiating metal ribs
  

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• noun erect evergreen shrub or small tree of Australia and northern New Guinea having palmately compound leaves
  Brassaia actinophylla; Schefflera actinophylla.
  
• noun small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches
  umbrella magnolia; elkwood; Magnolia tripetala; elk-wood.
  

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• (Bot.), a kind of magnolia (M. Umbrella) with the large leaves arranged in umbrellalike clusters at the ends of the branches. It is a native of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky. Other plants in various countries are called by this name, especially a kind of screw pine (Pandanus odoratissimus).

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• adjective satellite shaped in the form of an umbrella
  

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