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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: involucre (0.01661 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to involucre.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: involucre
involucre
n : a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts
at the base of an inflorescence
[also:
involucra (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Involucre
Involucre
\In"vo*lu`cre\ (?; 277), n. [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.
[1913 Webster]
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