Involucre

Definition:

• (n.) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
• (n.) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
• (n.) The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.

Compare involucre with other words:

involucre vs. involucret

involucre vs. involucred

columella vs. involucre

bract vs. involucre

inflorescence vs. involucre

aggregate vs. involucre