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Definition of Involucre
1. Noun. A highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence.
Definition of Involucre
1. n. A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
Definition of Involucre
1. Noun. (botany) Conspicuous bract, bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Involucre
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Literary usage of Involucre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"(although that is said to have sometimes four flowers in the involucre) : but
species. ... Staminate flowers as in Ambrosia, except that the involucre is of ..."
2. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"Capsules in oblong or oval spots, arranged in regular rows on both sides of, and
parallel with, the ribs: involucre vaulted, and opening inwards. ..."
3. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"•I— Pappus simple, of copious capillary scabrous bristles : akènes linear :
receptacle naked and smooth : bracts of the involucre distinct. ..."
4. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"WEDELIA, Jacq. Heads many-flowered, radiate. Flowers of the ray pistillate, of
the disk perfect, tubular, 5-toothed. Scales of the involucre in 2-3 rows, ..."
5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"Bracts of the involucre pale, scarious, usually without herbaceous tips. 7. ...
-X- Rays blue or purple; plants not glandular. t Bracts of the involucre ..."
6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"involucre with 2 very large bracts at the base. AA. Husk or involucre tubular,
narrowed above the nut and forming an elongated beak. в. ..."
7. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1860)
"The odour is strong, peculiar, and more or less unpleasant ; the involucre is
convex, and composed of a number of nearly equal, imbricated, concave bracts, ..."
8. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"There is commonly an involucre of several bracts, resembling an outer calyx. ...
involucre of в - 9 ovate and pointed leaves united at the base. 1. MALOTE. ..."
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