ocrea

American

[ok-ree-uh, oh-kree-uh] / ˈɒk ri ə, ˈoʊ kri ə /

noun

Botany, Zoology.

PLURAL

ocreae

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

ocrea British

/ ˈɒkrɪə /

noun

a variant spelling of ochrea

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Etymology

Origin of ocrea

1820–30; < Latin: greave, legging

Example Sentences

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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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