"Periclinium" is a word in ENGLISH

The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.

Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, …

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which …

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as …

Belonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.

A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent involucres; a kind of everlasting.

A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called …

A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting.

A partial, secondary, or small involucre. See Illust. of Involucre.

Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.

Alt. of Involucrated

Having an involucre; involucred.

A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the …

The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.

A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.

Having an involucre, as umbels, heads, etc.

See Involucre.

The Astrantia major, a European umbelliferous plant with a showy colored involucre.

One-leaved; composed of a single leaf; as, a monophyllous involucre or calyx.