involucre

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnvəˌluːkə(ɹ)/

involucre (plural involucres)

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

• volucrine

Borrowed from Latin involūcrum.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [im.buˈlu.kɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [iɱ.vuˈlu.kɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iɱ.voˈlu.kɾe]

involucre m (plural involucres)

1. (botany) involucre

• involucrar

• “involucre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Borrowed from 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