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involucrate

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

adjective

  1. having an involucre.


Etymology

Origin of involucrate

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


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Ovary 1-celled; flowers in a dense involucrate head.

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

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 Asa Gray

Spikelets jointed upon the pedicels, ovate, panicled, racemed, or sometimes spiked, not involucrate, with one perfect and sometimes a second lower rudimentary or staminate flower.

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 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

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 Asa Gray

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