Definition of Involucres

1. Noun. (plural of involucre) ¹

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Definition of Involucres

1. involucre [n] - See also: involucre

Lexicographical Neighbors of Involucres

invokes
invoking
invokingly
involatile
involucel
involucella
involucellate
involucellum
involucels
involucra
involucral
involucrate
involucrated
involucre
involucred
involucres (current term)
involucret
involucrets
involucrin
involucrum
involuntarily
involuntariness
involuntary
involuntary guarding
involuntary muscle
involuntary muscles
involuntary nervous system
involuntary trust
involute
involuted

Literary usage of Involucres

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)
"The characters are not always obvious, and Glabrous or glandular, not villous nor tomentose : bracts foliaceous, involucres ..."

2. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"2763 (not of Blume), Leaves coriaceous, 2-3-J in., base acute, sometimes flocculent beneath, nerve» raised beneath ; petiole i in. involucres 1Í- in. long, ..."

3. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Pedicels of the lower forks scarcely longer than the involucres; lobes of the latter as broad as ... involucres all sessile. Leaves mostly flat; involucres ..."

4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"differing chiefly in the longer and more pointed cylindrical-oblong or fusiform-clavate involucres, which in the latter species are commonly pyriform. ..."

5. A History of British Ferns by Edward Newman (1854)
"... linear, narrow, scale-like involucre, also attached to the side of the veins : the clusters of capsules, together with their involucres, are situated ..."

6. A Popular California Flora: Or, Manual of Botany for Beginners : Containing by Volney Rattan (1880)
"involucres usually deeply 5-0-cleft umbellate, with spreading or reflexed ... involucres sessile, capitate ; the usually naked globose heads solitary or ..."

7. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Branches villous-hirsute often ascending near the tips: leaf-blades reniform or deltoid to orbicular or ovate, conspicuously pubescent: involucres fully 1 ..."

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