Category: I

  • Involucral bract

    Involucral bract

    (In Compositae/Asteraceae) one or more of the bracts surrounding the capitulum and forming the involucre.  

  • Involucellate

    With an involucel.  

  • Involucel

    A secondary involucre at the base of a single branch of a compound umbel. A small involucre.    

  • Invested in

    Clothed in.  

  • Inverted

    With the apex in the opposite direction from normal, upside down.  

  • Invasive

    (Adjective) a non-native plant taxon intruding into, and spreading in, areas to which it is foreign. Having the quality of invasiveness. Involving puncture or incision of the skin or insertion of an instrument or foreign material into the body; said of diagnostic techniques. According to the National Invasive Species Information Center: “An ‘invasive species’ is…

  • Invalid

    (In nomenclature) a name or epithet that may be effectively published but is not in accordance with Articles 32–45 (or for hybrids, H9) of the I.C.B.N. In law, not binding, lacking in authority. Someone who has had an illness and has not fully recovered from it or who has been permanently disabled. A former term…

  • Invagination

    Enclosing in a sheath. The pushing of the wall of a cavity into the cavity. The surgical treatment of hernia, in which a sheath of tissue is made to cover the opening. Condition in which one part of an organ folds into or becomes telescoped into another part of the organ, as in the intestine,…

  • Invaginated

    Enclosed in a sheath. To fold in. The act of being encased or enveloped within a covering is described as the process of forming a cavity or pocket inside a solid structure. Common instances include the nasal lining folding into the skull bone to create a nasal sinus, and one segment of the intestine tucking…

  • Intrusive

    Pushing or projecting into another organ.