umderwear.html - {adv.}, {informal} Yes. - Used only in speech or when recording dialogue. * /Are you going to the Fair? Uh-huh./ * /We were in Alaska, um-hum, but that was long before the earthquakes./ * /When I asked for an appointment, the nurse said, "Um-hum, I have an opening at four o'clock on Friday."/ Contrast: HUH-UH.

umderwear.html - See: UH-HUH.

umderwear.html - int.
expressing hesitation or a pause in speech. [imit.]

umderwear.html - n.
Bot. a flower-cluster in which stalks nearly equal in length spring from a common centre and form a flat or curved surface, as in parsley.

umbellar adj. umbellate adj. umbellule adj. [obs. F umbelle or L umbella sunshade, dimin. of UMBRA]

umderwear.html - n.
any plant of the family Umbelliferae bearing umbels, including parsley and parsnip.

umbelliferous adj. [obs. F umbellif

re f. L (as UMBEL, - fer bearing)]

umderwear.html - n. & adj.
--n.

1 a natural pigment like ochre but darker and browner.
2 the colour of this.

--adj.

1 of this colour.
2 dark, dusky. [F (terre d') ombre or It. (terra di) ombra = shadow (earth), f. L UMBRA or Umbra fem. of Umber Umbrian]