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Definition of Ocreate
1. a. Same as Ochreate, Ochreated.
Definition of Ocreate
1. having ocreae [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ocreate
Literary usage of Ocreate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Guide to Garden Plants by John Weathers (1901)
"Leaves alternate, with ocreate stipules. Flowers in clusters, racemes, panicles,
or spikes, usually hermaphrodite. Perianth usually coloured, and composed ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"[< Gr. aiv, together, + E. ocreate."] In bot, uniting together on the opposite
side of the stem from the leaf, and inclosing the stem in a sheath : noting ..."
3. Journal of Mycology by William Ashbrook Kellerman, Job Bicknell Ellis, Benjamin Matlack Everhart (1902)
"VOLVA ocreate, the limb narrow as in A. pan- ... This species differs from A.
nivalis Grev., in the ocreate volva, ..."
4. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1893)
"... which is the longest, graduated. Tail of twelve feathers, rounded, shorter
than wing. Tarsus elongate, slender, ocreate. Plumage soft and loose. ..."
5. Studies of American Fungi: Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, Etc by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"One or more of them lie on the upper part of the bulb, forming the " limb " of
the " ocreate " volva. Others lie around the margin of the pileus. ..."
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