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noun
Conspicuous bract, bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bract
History
Borrowed from French involucre, from Latin involūcrum (“wrapper”). Doublet of involucrum.
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
