involucre
Meaning of involucre
noun
- a membranous envelope.
- a whorl or rosette of bracts surrounding an inflorescence (especially a capitulum) or at the base of an umbel.
late 16th century: from French, or from Latin involucrum, from involvere ‘roll in, envelop’ (see involve).
Information about involucre
- It is a name.
- The plural form of involucre is: involucres.
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CatalanHyphenation of involucre
in-volu-cre
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- involucre is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of involucre
Anagrams of involucre
Words that rhyme with involucre
faucre, eucre, lucre, Sucre, sucre
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