umbelliform

1. 1.

   resembling or in the form of an umbel

   botany

Questions about umbelliform

What does umbelliform mean?

umbelliform means "resembling or in the form of an umbel".

How many syllables are in umbelliform?

umbelliform has 4 syllables and divides as um-bel-li-form under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is umbelliform a common word?

umbelliform is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.