involucre

Borrowed from French involucre, from Latin involūcrum (“wrapper”). Doublet of involucrum.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnvəˈluːkə(ɹ)/

involucre (plural involucres)

1. (botany) Conspicuous bract, bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence.

• volucrine

Latin involūcrum

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /im.vuˈlu.kɾə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /im.buˈlu.kɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /im.voˈlu.kɾe/

involucre m (plural involucres)

1. (botany) involucre

• involucrar

• “involucre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

Latin involūcrum

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.vɔ.lykʁ/

involucre m (plural involucres)

1. (botany) involucre

• “involucre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

involucre

1. inflection of involucrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative