Usually means: Cluster of bracts beneath flowers.
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  1. involucel: Merriam-Webster
  2. involucel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. involucel: Collins English Dictionary
  4. involucel: Wordnik
  5. involucel: Wiktionary
  6. involucel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. involucel: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Involucel, involucel: Dictionary.com
  9. Involucel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. involucel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Involucel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. involucel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. involucel: FreeDictionary.org
  14. involucel: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (involucel)

▸ noun:  (botany) An involucre that forms at the base of a flower cluster within a compound inflorescence.

Similar:
involucrum, involucret, involucre, involucellum, periclinium, anthodium, inflorescence, umbel, phyllary, capitulum, more...

Opposite:
evolute, exvolucre, exvolucrum

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Similar:
involucrum, involucret, involucre, involucellum, periclinium, anthodium, inflorescence, umbel, phyllary, capitulum, more...

Opposite:
evolute, exvolucre, exvolucrum



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