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Words related to umbra

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  • penumbra

    Astronomy. the partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off. Compare umbra (def 3a). the grayish marginal portion of a sunspot. Compare umbra (def 3b).

  • mudminnow

    any of several small, carnivorous fishes of the genera Umbra and Novumbra, found in muddy streams and pools.

  • obumbrant

    overhanging; projecting over another part.

  • somber

    gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.

  • umbel

    an inflorescence in which a number of flower stalks or pedicels, nearly equal in length, spread from a common center.

  • umbrette

    hammerhead (def 3).
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