involucrate
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of involucrate
Example Sentences
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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 Asa Gray
Flowers perfect, involucrate; involucre 4–8-toothed or lobed, usually many-flowered; the more or less exserted pedicels intermixed with narrow scarious 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 Asa Gray
Flowers in sessile dense many-flowered clusters, and involucrate with conspicuous setaceous-subulate rigid bracts; calyx nearly naked in the throat.
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 Asa Gray
Urticaceæ, 461 Styles 3; embryo straight; flowers 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 Asa Gray
The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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