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Definition of Involucrate
1. Adjective. Having an involucre.
Definition of Involucrate
1. a. Having an involucre; involucred.
Definition of Involucrate
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Involucrate
Literary usage of Involucrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"Flowers regular or irregular ; if unisexual, usually collected in involucrate heads.
Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, rarely fewer, inserted on the ..."
2. The Microscopist: A Compendium of Microscopic Science Including the Use of by Joseph Henry Wythe (1883)
"... sessile, involucrate. 3. Ceramium.—Frond filiform, articulate, dichotomous ;
the joints opaque. ... involucrate with tufts of pear-shaped spores. ..."
3. Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver, David Prain, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1877)
"A genus of several species occurring also in Tropical America and Madagascar.
Ovary 4-5-celled. Bracts involucrate. Common peduncles long (1-4 in.). ..."
4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... an involucrate umbel. Style-base persistent. • < Achene not crowned by the
bulbous base of the style, ++ Flowers without Inner scales. ..."
5. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1848)
"99 97 Fls. small, in dense, involucrate heads. ... LXXV 97 Flowers in umbels,
racemes, Ac., not involucrate. --- 98 99 Ovaries superior, or nearly so. ..."
6. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"Flowers regular or irregular ; if unisexual, usually collected in involucrate heads.
Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, rarely fewer, inserted on the ..."
7. The Microscopist: A Compendium of Microscopic Science Including the Use of by Joseph Henry Wythe (1883)
"... sessile, involucrate. 3. Ceramium.—Frond filiform, articulate, dichotomous ;
the joints opaque. ... involucrate with tufts of pear-shaped spores. ..."
8. Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver, David Prain, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1877)
"A genus of several species occurring also in Tropical America and Madagascar.
Ovary 4-5-celled. Bracts involucrate. Common peduncles long (1-4 in.). ..."
9. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... an involucrate umbel. Style-base persistent. • < Achene not crowned by the
bulbous base of the style, ++ Flowers without Inner scales. ..."
10. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1848)
"99 97 Fls. small, in dense, involucrate heads. ... LXXV 97 Flowers in umbels,
racemes, Ac., not involucrate. --- 98 99 Ovaries superior, or nearly so. ..."
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