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单词 involucre
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involucren.

/ˈɪnvəl(j)uːkə/
Etymology: < French involucre (1545 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < Latin involūcrum.
1. That which envelops or enwraps; a case, covering, envelope; spec. in Anatomy, a membranous envelope, as the pericardium.
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the world > life > the body > bodily substance > membrane > [noun]
rimeOE
hameOE
skina1398
caul1398
shrine1398
tunicle1398
panniclea1400
pelliculea1400
slougha1400
membrane?a1425
pellicle?a1425
pellet?1440
enfolder1545
kell1545
involucre1578
skinlet1598
striffena1612
swathe1615
veil1639
tunic1661
swath-band1668
involucruma1676
wall1682
panniculus1702
theca1807
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > enfolding or enveloping > that which or one who
enfolder1545
inwrapper1553
involucre1578
involument1578
burse1601
involvement1632
investment1646
involution1646
mantling1652
involucruma1676
tunicle1678
enveloping1693
envelope1715
enveloper1883
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 24v Pericardon (whiche is the Inuolucre of the hart).
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 24 The involucres of the teeth are their gums, membranes, and sockets, or alveoli.
figurative.1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) iii. 188 The verb is the central representative and focus..of that predicative force..which in the interjection is wrapped round and enfolded with an involucre of emotion.1898 Month June 600 To distinguish the emotional substance of religion from its intellectual involucre.
2. Botany. A whorl or rosette of bracts surrounding an inflorescence, or at the base of an umbel. Also: (a) (in ferns) sometimes applied to the indusium; (b) (in liverworts) a sheath of tissue surrounding the female sexual organs; (c) (in fungi) the velum. partial involucre = involucel n. See also involucrum n. 2.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [noun] > involucre
fence1727
involucrum1753
involucel1765
involucre1787
involucret1793
cupule1830
1787 T. Martyn tr. J. J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. (ed. 2) v. 54 This set of small leaves or folioles is called the involucre.
1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 165/1 Flowers..in umbells..Involucre many leaved, the leaves toothed.
1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) i. 11 When many bracts are collected in a whorl round several flowers they form an involucre.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. VI. 146 The indusium.. in some few of our native species, as in the Filmy Ferns,..is cup-shaped,..it is then often called an involucre.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 303 The surrounding tissue of the thallus divides repeatedly and grows into an involucre which is arched upwards and through which the elongating sporogonium afterwards pushes its way.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 306.
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3. Zoology. = involucrum n. 3.
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