involucrate
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of involucrate
Example Sentences
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She was shocked when she came across some davidia involucrate plants, which grow into what is commonly known as the handkerchief tree because of its attractive white flowers.
From BBC
Scapes or peduncles terminated by a single head, involucrate by some outer empty bracts.
From Project Gutenberg
The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.
From Project Gutenberg
A beautiful Rose occurs on the banks of nullahs, and at Camein, on the Mogaung river: it has large white flowers, involucrate; smell sweet like that of a Jonquil.
From Project Gutenberg
Spikelets solitary or clustered, or in a compound umbel, the stem often leafy at base and inflorescence involucrate.
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