involucrate

American  

[in-vuh-loo-krit, -kreyt] / ˌɪn vəˈlu krɪt, -kreɪt /

adjective

1. having an involucre.

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Etymology

Origin of involucrate

First recorded in 1820–30; involucre + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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involucrate

Spikelets ovate, not involucrate nor the pedicels bristly.

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

Compositæ, 230 Flowers separate, not involucrate; corolla irregular.

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

Spikelets terete, many-flowered, in a terminal close cluster involucrate by leafy bracts.

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

Flowers greenish-yellow, naked, in clustered and peduncled corymbed racemes, appearing with the leaves, involucrate with scaly bracts.

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

Spikelets solitary or clustered, or in a compound umbel, the stem often leafy at base and inflorescence involucrate.

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