OCHREATE

Adjective

ochreate (not comparable)

(botany) Provided with ochrea, or sheath-formed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.

Anagrams

• ecthorea

Source: Wiktionary


O"chre*ate, O"chre*a`ted, a.

1. Wearing or furnished with an ochrea or legging; wearing boots; booted. A scholar undertook...to address himself ochreated unto the vice chancellor. Fuller.

2. (Bot.)

Definition: Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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