INVOLUCRE

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.

2.
n.

A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.

3.
n.

The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.