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

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

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

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

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 Gray, Asa

Leaves lanceolate, or the upper and involucrate ones almost ovate-lanceolate, appendages of corolla sometimes very short and broad.—Minn. and L. Superior; also Herkimer Co.,

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