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Involucre [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, a calyx remote from the flower, particularly in the umbel, but applied also to the whorl and other kinds of inflorescence.

Involucre [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.

2. A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.

3. The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.

Involucred [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having an involucre, as umbels, whorls, etc.

Involucred [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having an involucre, as umbels, heads, etc.

Involucret [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A small or partial involucrum.

Involucret [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913