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Poinsettia :: Poinsettia (n.) A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.

Bracted :: Bracted (a.) Furnished with bracts.

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..

Perigone :: Perigone (n.) In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower..

Bractlet :: Bractlet (n.) A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers..

Palea :: Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc..

Bracteole :: Bracteole (n.) Same as Bractlet.

Tribracteate :: Tribracteate (a.) Having three bracts.

Ebracteate :: Ebracteate (a.) Without bracts.

Bougainvillaea :: Bougainvillaea (n.) A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceae, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts..

Leaf :: Leaf (n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril..

Calyculated :: Calyculated (a.) Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.

Bractea :: Bractea (n.) A bract.

Calycle :: Calycle (n.) A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside..

Ebracteolate :: Ebracteolate (a.) Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk..

Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..

Spathe :: Spathe (n.) A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract, and Illust. of Spadix..

Rosulate :: Rosulate (a.) Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.

Bibracteate :: Bibracteate (a.) Furnished with, or having, two bracts..

Calycular :: Calycular (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle..

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