involucre
Americannoun
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Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
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a covering, especially a membranous one.
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Etymology
Origin of involucre
1570–80; < Middle French < Latin involūcrum involucrum
Example Sentences
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Distinguished from the last two tribes by the more or less dry and scarious imbricated scales of the involucre.
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
Scales of the involucre equal and all in one row.
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
Seed suspended.—Perennial herbs with radical leaves; those of the stem 2 or 3 together, opposite or whorled, and forming an involucre remote from the flower; peduncles 1-flowered, solitary or umbellate.
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
Scales of the involucre more or less imbricated, usually with herbaceous or leaf-like tips.
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
Leaves opposite 74 Scales of the involucre imbricated.
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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