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Definition of Floral envelope
1. Noun. Collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils.
Generic synonyms: Cover, Covering, Natural Covering, Plant Organ
Group relationships: Bloom, Blossom, Flower
Terms within: Corolla, Calyx
Specialized synonyms: Falls
Derivative terms: Chlamydeous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floral Envelope
Literary usage of Floral envelope
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Indiana Weed Book by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1912)
"The inner floral envelope when present is called the corolla. It is also made up
of several leaf-like parts arranged in a whorl or circle and called petals. ..."
2. The Indiana Weed Book by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1912)
"The inner floral envelope when present is called the corolla. It is also made up
of several leaf-like parts arranged in a whorl or circle and called petals. ..."
3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"There are two sets of organs or members in the complete flower—(i) the floral
envelope; (2) the essential or necessary members or organs. ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"There are two sets of organs or members in the complete flower—(i) the floral
envelope; (2) the essential or necessary members or organs. ..."
5. A Practical Flora for Schools and Colleges by Oliver Rivington Willis (1894)
"floral envelope single or 0. Styles 1-2. Fruit a cylindrical mass of little drupes.
... floral envelope in two 3-parted whorls, outer one green, ..."
6. The Floral Cabinet and Magazine of Exotic Botany by George Beauchamp Knowles, Frederic Westcott (1837)
"This plant, by possessing both calyx and corolla, was a great Botanical curiosity,
the genus being previously considered to possess but one floral envelope. ..."
7. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"... but in this genus the disk is not free, as in lodina, but is entirely adnate
with the tube of the floral envelope, so that when the fruit ripens, ..."
8. Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application by Luther Burbank, John Whitson, Robert John, Henry Smith Williams, Luther Burbank Society (1914)
"The origin of the colored floral envelope has been ascribed to the influence of
... We have been made aware that the floral envelope was developed as an ..."
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