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

Scapes or peduncles terminated by a single head, involucrate by some outer empty 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 in pairs, spicate, all alike fertile, involucrate with a silky tuft.

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

Otherwise as in Scirpus.—Spikelets single or clustered or umbellate, usually involucrate with erect scale-like bracts, upon a leafy or naked stem; scales membranaceous, 1–3-nerved.

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

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah