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

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

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

Bractea :: Bractea (n.) A bract.

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

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

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..

Squamellate :: Squamella (n.) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ebracteate :: Ebracteate (a.) Without bracts.

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..

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

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..

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