involucre

involucre is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 19 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
2. noun. A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
3. noun. The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.
4. noun. a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in involucre:

volucrine

Common word forms

involucred, involucres

Words from these letters

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