资料来源 : pyDict
总苞;皮膜;外膜
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Involucre \In"vo*lu`cre\ (?; 277), n. [L. involucrum a covering,
wrapper, fr. involvere to wrap up, envelop: cf. F. involucre.
See {Involve}.] (Bot.)
(a) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
(b) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain
ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped
processes of the filmy ferns.
(c) The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also
{involucrum}.
资料来源 : WordNet®
involucre
n : a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts
at the base of an inflorescence
[also: {involucra} (pl)]