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1. (n.) involucre
a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
2. involucre
a covering, esp. a membranous one.
Etymology: (1570–80; < MF < L involūcrum a wrapper, cover <involū-, var. s. of involvere (see involve ))
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) involucre
a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence
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1. (noun) involucre
a whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head
2. (noun) involucre
a continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns
3. (noun) involucre
the peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum
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