ocrea

[ok-ree-uh, oh-kree-uh]

noun

Botany, Zoology.

plural

ocreae 

1. a sheathing part, as a pair of stipules united about a stem.

ocrea

/ ˈɒkrɪə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of ochrea

Word History and Origins

Origin of ocrea¹

1820–30; < Latin: greave, legging

Example Sentences

In Grasses, when the sheathing base of the leaf may answer to petiole, the summit of the sheath commonly projects as a thin and short membrane, like an ocrea: this is called a Ligula or Ligule.

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