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

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

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

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

Bractea :: Bractea (n.) A bract.

Bracteate :: Bracteate (a.) Having a bract or bracts.

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

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..

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..

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

Bractless :: Bractless (a.) Destitute of bracts.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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