involucrate

[ in-vuh-loo-krit, -kreyt ]

adjective

1. having an involucre.

Word History and Origins

Origin of involucrate¹

First recorded in 1820–30; involucre + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

She was shocked when she came across some davidia involucrate plants, which grow into what is commonly known as the handkerchief tree because of its attractive white flowers.

From BBC

Spikelets jointed upon the pedicels, ovate, panicled, racemed, or sometimes spiked, not involucrate, with one perfect and sometimes a second lower rudimentary or staminate flower.

From Project Gutenberg

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

From Project Gutenberg

A beautiful Rose occurs on the banks of nullahs, and at Camein, on the Mogaung river: it has large white flowers, involucrate; smell sweet like that of a Jonquil.

From Project Gutenberg

Scapes or peduncles terminated by a single head, involucrate by some outer empty bracts.

From Project Gutenberg