(botany) A large family of aromatic dicotyledonous herbs in the order Umbellales; flowers have an ovary of two carpels, ripening to form a dry fruit that splits into two halves, each containing a single seed.
Umbelliferae
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(′əm·bə′lif·ə′rē)
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