involucel

American  

[in-vol-yuh-sel] / ɪnˈvɒl yəˌsɛl /

noun

Botany.

1. a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.

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involucel British  

/ ɪnˈvɒljʊˌsɛl, ɪnˌvɒljʊˈsɛləm /

noun

1. a ring of bracts at the base of the florets of a compound umbel

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Other Word Forms

• involucelate
  adjective
• involucelated
  adjective
• involucellate
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of involucel

1755–65; < New Latin involūcellum, diminutive of Latin involūcrum involucrum; for formation, see castellum

Example Sentences

Partial involucre, same as an involucel; partial petiole, a division of a main leaf-stalk or the stalk of a leaflet; partial peduncle, a branch of a peduncle; partial umbel, an umbellet, 76.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Calyx either naked or with a 3-leaved involucel at its base.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Each peduncle bears 4-pedicelled male or neuter spikelets in a regular whorl forming an involucel around 1 or 2 sessile bisexual spikelets and 2- or 3-pedicelled male spikelets.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

M. Álcea, L., with the stem-leaves only once 5-parted or cleft, the lobes incised, large flowers like the last, but the fruit smooth, and bractlets of the involucel ovate, has escaped from gardens.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Calyx with a 3-leaved involucel at the base, like an outer calyx.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa