Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The head, or so-called compound flower, of Compositæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.
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- noun botany The
inflorescence of acompound flower in which manyflorets are gathered into aninvolucrate head .
Etymologies
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New Latin, from Ancient Greek.
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