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Definition of Involucels
1. involucel [n] - See also: involucel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Involucels
Literary usage of Involucels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"3 to 6 linos long; involucro of several bracts or none; involucels of linear
acuminate bractlets; ... Involucre and involucels none. Calyx-teeth obsolete. ..."
2. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Seen concave on the face, covered with a loose membrane. Involucre I- leaved, or 0.
involucels ... involucels of about 3 unilateral subulate ..."
3. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Seed concave on the face, covered with a loose membrane. Involucre 1- leaved, or 0.
involucels ... involucels ..."
4. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"... each often subtended by a whorl of bracts (involucre and involucels). — A
large family, some of the plants innocent and aromatic, others with very ..."
5. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"... involucre represented by a short sheath whose teeth are occasionally prolonged
into small linear bracts, and involucels of bractlets united at base and ..."
6. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Pubescent : fruit glabrous, oblong or broadly elliptical : involucels ... unequal,
1 to 4 inches long; involucels of a few narrow bractlets, usually small ..."
7. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"involucels one-sided. Fis. white. ... The plant somewhat resembles parsley, but
is distinctly marked by the involucels, and by its disagreeable odor. ..."
8. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1889)
"Pubescent, with peduncles 3-8' high; leaves bipinnate, the small oblong segments
entire or toothed ; involucels of scarious-mar- ..."
9. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"3 to 6 linos long; involucro of several bracts or none; involucels of linear
acuminate bractlets; ... Involucre and involucels none. Calyx-teeth obsolete. ..."
10. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Seen concave on the face, covered with a loose membrane. Involucre I- leaved, or 0.
involucels ... involucels of about 3 unilateral subulate ..."
11. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Seed concave on the face, covered with a loose membrane. Involucre 1- leaved, or 0.
involucels ... involucels ..."
12. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"... each often subtended by a whorl of bracts (involucre and involucels). — A
large family, some of the plants innocent and aromatic, others with very ..."
13. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"... involucre represented by a short sheath whose teeth are occasionally prolonged
into small linear bracts, and involucels of bractlets united at base and ..."
14. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Pubescent : fruit glabrous, oblong or broadly elliptical : involucels ... unequal,
1 to 4 inches long; involucels of a few narrow bractlets, usually small ..."
15. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"involucels one-sided. Fis. white. ... The plant somewhat resembles parsley, but
is distinctly marked by the involucels, and by its disagreeable odor. ..."
16. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1889)
"Pubescent, with peduncles 3-8' high; leaves bipinnate, the small oblong segments
entire or toothed ; involucels of scarious-mar- ..."
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