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umbelliferous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
um-bel-lif-er-ous
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Bearing umbels.

adj

Pertaining to a member of the family Umbelliferae.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From umbel + -iferous.

Rhymes With

carboniferous fossiliferous cruciferous seminiferous odoriferous splendiferous luminiferous metalliferous floriferous auriferous stoloniferous calciferous

Questions

What does umbelliferous mean?
Bearing umbels.
Where does umbelliferous come from?
From umbel + -iferous.

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