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






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