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n. - Any of numerous aromatic herbs of a similarly named family

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Usage examples (5)
  • Angelica is an umbellifer, like carrot, pignut and hemlock.
  • Paeonia sp., and umbellifer Pleurospermum uralensis, Myosotis sp., whilst the tundra includes Saxifraga tenuis, Dryas sp. and Thymus sp.
  • The wasps can be encouraged by growing plants like cilantro, fennel and dill, members of the umbellifer family, which the adult wasps feed on.
  • Other members of the umbellifer family draw in the beetles and the hoverflies, but nothing quite magnetises the invertebrate world like flowering hogweed.
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