Ocreate
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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ocreate
Wearing or furnished with an ocrea, greave, or legging; booted. -
ocreate
In botany, furnished with an ocrea or sheath (through which the stem passes), formed by a stipule or by the union of two stipules. -
ocreate
In ornithology, booted; having the tarsal envelop continuous; having a holothecal podotheca. See boot and caligula. -
ocreate
In zoology, sheathed as if with stipules; having ocreæ.
Etymology
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary See Ochrea
Usage in literature
One or more of them lie on the upper part of the bulb, forming the "limb" of the "ocreate" volva. "Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc." by