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Involucre
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
(2):
(n.) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.
(3):
(n.) The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Involucre'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/i/involucre.html. 1828.