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ocreate, a.|ˈɒkriːət| Erron. ochreate. [f. as prec. + -ate2.] 1. Wearing or furnished with an ocrea, greave, or legging; booted. 2. Ornith. Booted: having the tarsal envelope fused into a continuous ocrea or boot, as in Sundevall's group of Birds, Ocreatæ, containing the thrushes, nightingales, redbreasts, etc. 3. Bot. Having the stipules united by cohesion into a sheath surrounding the stem.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 169 Apetalous dicotyledons, with..ochreate stipulæ. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §4 (ed. 6) 106 Sheathing stipules, like those of Polygonum, are said to be ochreate, or (better) ocreate. |