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English noun: umbrella plant

1. umbrella plant (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


SynonymsDarmera peltata, Indian rhubarb, Peltiphyllum peltatum


Broader (hypernym)herb, herbaceous plant


Member meronymDarmera, genus Darmera, genus Peltiphyllum, Peltiphyllum

2. umbrella plant (plant) late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters


SynonymsEriogonum allenii


Broader (hypernym)eriogonum

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


SynonymsCyperus alternifolius, umbrella sedge


Broader (hypernym)sedge


Member meronymCyperus, genus Cyperus









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