Umber vs Umbel - What's the difference?
umber | umbel |
a brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.
A grayling.
A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta ) allied to the storks and herons.
Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.
* J. R. Drake
As nouns the difference between umber and umbel
is that umber is a brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides while umbel is a flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre.As an adjective umber
is of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.umber
English
(wikipedia umber)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)- Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.