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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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Bractea :: Bractea (n.) A bract.

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

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..

Teasel :: Teasel (n.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth..

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

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

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

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