Involucre

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A series of bracts beneath or around a flower or flower cluster.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Conspicuous bract, bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
  • n. A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
  • n. The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, any collection of bracts round a cluster of flowers.
  • n. In anatomy, a membranous envelop. as the pericardium.
  • n. 3, In zoology, an involucrum.
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  • n. a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bract   
    Variant
    involucra    involucrum   
     
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