12) ray 1. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...on the moon. 7. Botany a. A ray flower or the corolla of a ray flower. b. A branch of an umbel. 8. Zoology a. One of the bony spines supporting the membrane of a...

13) 12. Bread and the Newspaper by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Matthews, Brander, ed. 1914. The Oxford Book of American Essays
...new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. He will cheerfully calm the perturbed nap of his...

14) flower. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...same inflorescence. One type of inflorescence, characteristic of the parsley family, is the umbel, in which the tiny florets are borne on separate stalks radiating...

15) Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume. Darwin, Charles Robert. 1909-14. Origin of Species. The Harvard Classics
...as equivalent to pupa-stage. 36 C lospermous—A term applied to those fruits of the Umbelliferę which have the seed hollowed on the inner face. 37 Coleoptera beetles—an...