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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