Involucre is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INVOLUCRE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head, also INVOLUCRUM
• a membranous envelope.
• a whorl or rosette of bracts surrounding an inflorescence (especially a capitulum) or at the base of an umbel.
• ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence in such plants as the composites
• A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
• A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
• The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.
• a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one or more whorls of bracts situated below and close to a flower, flower cluster, or fruit

Words related to INVOLUCRE

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Words that contain INVOLUCRE

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How to use INVOLUCRE in a sentence

• It is a handsome shrub or small-growing tree, with small flowers surrounded by a large and conspicuous white involucre.
• The majority of the eggs were laid upon the calyx and involucre.
• The worm, after gnawing through its enclosed shell, makes its first meal upon the part of the plant upon which the egg was laid, be it leaf, stem or involucre.
• A species fairly abundant in Connecticut, and I transplanted these bushes because they happened to have a tremendously long involucre.
• In these the involucre is little altered, and the receptacle is attacked by larva.

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