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involucre
[in-vuh-loo-ker]
noun
Botany.a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
a covering, especially a membranous one.
involucre
/ ˈɪnvəˌluːkə, ˌɪnvəˈluːkrəm /
noun
a ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence in such plants as the composites
involucre
A series of bracts beneath or around a flower or flower cluster. The cupule, the cuplike structure holding an oak acorn, is a modified, woody involucre.
Other 51Թ Forms
- involucral adjective
- ˌԱˈܳٱ adjective
- ˌԱˈܳ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of involucre1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of involucre1
Example Sentences
Empty glumes side by side in front of the spikelets, 6 in number, forming a kind of involucre, slender and awn-pointed or bristle-form.
Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
Leeches are oviparous, and their ova are discharged in one involucre near the surface and margin of pools, and are hatched by the heat of the sun.
Subtended, supported or surrounded; as a pedicel by a bract, or a flower-cluster by an involucre.
The variety palustre, which affects boggy situations, and flowers in late summer and autumn, has nearly entire leaves, and the outer bracts of its involucre are erect.
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