involucre

involucre has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

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