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Webster 1913 Edition

Involucre

In′vo-luˊcre

(?; 277)
,
Noun.
[L.
involucrum
a covering, wrapper, fr.
involvere
to wrap up, envelop: cf. F.
involucre
. See
Involve
.]
(Bot.)
(a)
A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
(b)
A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
(c)
The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also
involucrum
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Involucre

INVOLU'CRE

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

Definition 2024

involucré

involucré

See also: involucre

Spanish

Verb

involucré

  1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of involucrar.

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