involucrate

1. 1.

   having an involucre

   botany

Questions about involucrate

What does involucrate mean?

involucrate means "having an involucre".

How many syllables are in involucrate?

involucrate has 4 syllables and divides as in-vo-lu-crate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is involucrate a common word?

involucrate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.