meaning of involucre
1. A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
2. A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
3. The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.
4. a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence
Related Words
involucre | involucred | involucret |
