"Acorn Cup" is a word in ENGLISH
The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.
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Following some duty overseas, the officers at the Fort were planning a welcome home party and dance for the unit. Being an all male combat force, they decided to request coeds from some of the surrounding colleges to attend. The Captain called Vassar and was assured by the Dean that arrangements could be made to send over a dozen of their most trustworthy students. The Captain hesitated, then said, "Would it also be possible to send a dozen or so of the other kind?"
Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, …
Read the complete definitionThe inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.
Read the complete definitionThe Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which …
Read the complete definitionAny rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as …
Read the complete definitionBelonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
Read the complete definitionA genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.
Read the complete definitionA genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called …
Read the complete definitionA plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting.
Read the complete definitionA partial, secondary, or small involucre. See Illust. of Involucre.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.
Read the complete definitionAlt. of Involucrated
Read the complete definitionHaving an involucre; involucred.
Read the complete definitionThe peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.
Read the complete definitionA whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
Read the complete definitionA continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the …
Read the complete definitionHaving an involucre, as umbels, heads, etc.
Read the complete definitionSee Involucre.
Read the complete definitionThe Astrantia major, a European umbelliferous plant with a showy colored involucre.
Read the complete definitionOne-leaved; composed of a single leaf; as, a monophyllous involucre or calyx.
Read the complete definitionAny tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in …
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