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

Bract :: Bract (n.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises..

Bract :: Bract (n.) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower..

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

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

Bractea :: Bractea (n.) A bract.

Bracteal :: Bracteal (a.) Having the nature or appearance of a bract.

Purpleheart :: Purpleheart (n.) A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba..

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

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..

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

Coma :: Coma (n.) A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds..

Involucre :: Involucre (n.) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head..

Inferior :: Inferior (a.) On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.

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

Xyris :: Xyris (n.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States..

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

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

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

Bracteolate :: Bracteolate (a.) Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

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