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Definition of Involucrum
1. n. See Involucre.
Definition of Involucrum
1. Noun. A sheath that covers or envelopes, especially one that forms around the sequestrum of new bone ¹
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Definition of Involucrum
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Medical Definition of Involucrum
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Involucrum
Literary usage of Involucrum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"the involucrum; of the disk very numerous, dark purple. Seed four-angled. Pappus a
slight margin. Receptacle convex, chaff lanceolate, glabrous, ..."
2. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"... rather distant, nearly sessile ; scales of the involucrum oblong, obtuse, ...
panicle contracted ; involucrum generally 5-flowered ¡ scales lanceolate, ..."
3. Florigraphia Britannica; Or, Engravings and Descriptions of the Flowering by Richard Deakin (1857)
"involucrum cylindrical, or ... C. involucrum hemispherical. ye flow, those of
the ray ligulate, ... involucrum hemi a compressed tube. Receptacle naked. ..."
4. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"Length of the spike and of its lower scales, called in the specific character a
calyx or involucrum, extremely uncertain, sometimes this involucrum is as ..."
5. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1840)
"involucrum almost entirely smooth* Florets strap-shaped, yellow, destitute of
hairs on the tube, as well as of glands under their tips; the inner ones with ..."
6. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"... they differ in having an involucrum to each calyx, or to each pair of calices.
They are handsome trees or shrubs, but of no known use. ..."
7. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"Plant destitute of both general and partial involucrum. Styles, according to
South, at length elongated to half the length of the fruit, permanent. ..."
8. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"the involucrum; of the disk very numerous, dark purple. Seed four-angled. Pappus a
slight margin. Receptacle convex, chaff lanceolate, glabrous, ..."
9. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"... rather distant, nearly sessile ; scales of the involucrum oblong, obtuse, ...
panicle contracted ; involucrum generally 5-flowered ¡ scales lanceolate, ..."
10. Florigraphia Britannica; Or, Engravings and Descriptions of the Flowering by Richard Deakin (1857)
"involucrum cylindrical, or ... C. involucrum hemispherical. ye flow, those of
the ray ligulate, ... involucrum hemi a compressed tube. Receptacle naked. ..."
11. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"Length of the spike and of its lower scales, called in the specific character a
calyx or involucrum, extremely uncertain, sometimes this involucrum is as ..."
12. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1840)
"involucrum almost entirely smooth* Florets strap-shaped, yellow, destitute of
hairs on the tube, as well as of glands under their tips; the inner ones with ..."
13. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"... they differ in having an involucrum to each calyx, or to each pair of calices.
They are handsome trees or shrubs, but of no known use. ..."
14. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"Plant destitute of both general and partial involucrum. Styles, according to
South, at length elongated to half the length of the fruit, permanent. ..."
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