Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to an involucre or to an involucrum, or having an involucrum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.
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- adjective Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an
involucrum .
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Examples
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APLUDA MUTICA, and remarkable for the smooth shining appearance of the thin involucral leaves. 27 The
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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The pedicelled spikelets are similar to the involucral in every respect but smaller, male or neuter, but the first glume is not winged on the keels.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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It also occurs in the bracts of _Corydalis solida_, _Amorpha fruticosa_, _Ajuga reptans_, _Parthenium inodorum_, _Centaurea Jacea_, in the involucral bracts of the dandelion, the daisy, and many other composites.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In _Umbelliferæ_ the substitution of leaves for involucral bracts is not infrequent.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The involucral spikelets are male, oblong-lanceolate, acute, with short flattened pedicels, bearded at the base, and have three glumes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _involucral spikelets_ are the longest, in contiguous superposed pairs, about 1/2 inch long, and the rachis of the spike is produced beyond these spikelets.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The involucral spikelets are male or neuter, the largest, and consist of three glumes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The inner pedicelled spikelets are similar to the involucral spikelets, but the third glume is very narrow, linear.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Pedicelled spikelets inside the involucral similar to those of the involucral.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _pedicelled spikelets_ are usually smaller than the involucral spikelets and similar to them.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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