Crossword-Solution: UMBO
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Umbo | n. | The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike. |
| Umbo | n. | A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear. |
| Umbo | n. | One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| UMBO | anagram | BOMU, OMBU |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with UMBO (5)
The warrior to the right wears a conical helmet, and is thought to be a native Cyprian;[7110] he carries a shield without an _umbo_ or boss.
His adversary on the left wears a loose cap, or hood, the {pilos apages} of Herodotus,[7111] and has a prominent _umbo_ in the middle of his shield.
Lloyd.] +LEPIOTA PROCERA = tall.+ +The Tall Lepiota.+ +Cap+ reddish-brown, 3 to 6 inches broad, fleshy; when young egg-shaped, and then campanulate, and flattening out with a broad, obtuse umbo.
The edges were obtuse, the caps fleshy, then corky, smooth, the upper ends not regular, oblique in the form of an umbo or little knob, the pellicles or outside layers thin and easily separated.
The shields, a part of the equipment, which among all nations are found highly ornamented, were equally plain with the Franks and Angles; the _umbo_ or boss in the centre was, in those of both nations, of iron, and shaped like a rude dish-cover, which has often caused them to be catalogued as helmets or military head-pieces.
Quotes with UMBO (1)
She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children.” “Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew.” “They were delicious.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 48 times in crossword archives (1951–2018).