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Definition of Involucral
1. a. Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.
Definition of Involucral
1. Adjective. Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum. ¹
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Definition of Involucral
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Involucral
Literary usage of Involucral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Color of involucral Ivs. pink or red, or tinged only at margin. ... Much branched,
2-3 ft. high: Ivs. linear to linear-oblong; involucral Ivs. ovate, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Erect, usually less than 1 ft. high, sometimes branching at base only: branches
very leafy: Ivs. ovate-lanceolate to oblong-linear; involucral Ivs. 4-8, ..."
3. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"... and disposed into an ovate-oblong thyrsus : involucral scales linear, ...
and bearing sessile-spiked heads of flowers : involucral scales linear, ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"involucral bracts more or less united ; style-branches of the disk-flowers ...
involucral bracts united high up into a cup. 87. Thymophylla. Tribe 7. ..."
5. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"... together on short pedicels in axillary and compound erect terminal pedunculate
narrow cymes ; bracts leaflike smaller than the leaves; involucral scales ..."
6. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1846)
"double series of involucral scales, but differs in having lanceolate serrate,
... species of the genus in having the involucral scales of the same length, ..."
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