The word umbrella comes from the Latin word " umbra", meaning shade or shadow. noun a region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light.noun astronomy The central region of a sunspot.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.The juice of its berries is used for coloring wine.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It has large dark leaves, and a somber aspect. It is native of South America, but is now grown in southern Europe. noun (Bot.) a tree ( Phytolacca dioica) of the same genus as pokeweed.noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of sciænoid food fishes of the genus Umbrina, especially the Mediterranean species ( Umbrina cirrhosa), which is highly esteemed as a market fish - called also ombre, and umbrine.noun The fainter part of a sun spot - now more commonly called penumbra.noun The central dark portion, or nucleus, of a sun spot.noun The conical shadow projected from a planet or satellite, on the side opposite to the sun, within which a spectator could see no portion of the sun's disk - used in contradistinction from penumbra.See cut under Umbrina.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. noun A sciænoid fish, Umbrina cirrosa the umbrine.There are two species, respectively of Europe and North America, U. noun The only genus of Umbridæ the mud-minnows. noun In algebra, a symbol which, when paired with another, makes the symbol of a quantity.noun Among the Romans, one who went to a feast merely at the solicitation of one invited: so called because he followed the guest as a shadow.noun The completely dark central portion of the shadow cast by the earth, moon, or other body during an eclipse.noun A dark area, especially the blackest part of a shadow from which all light is cut off.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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