hybernacle

The bulbs of plants are another kind of winter-cradle, or hybernacle, adhering to the descending trunk, and are found in the perennial herbaceous plants which are too tender to bear the cold of the winter.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

By Linneus the herb is put for that part of a vegetable, which arifes from the root, is terminated by the fructification, and comprehends the Mem, leaves, fulcres, and hybernacle. —

The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ... 1793

A hybernacle, or winter recep - tacle of a plant, compofed of the bafes of paft leaves,

The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ... 1793