Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Involucre

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Involucre


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(1):

(n.) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.

(2):

(n.) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.

(3):

(n.) The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.