Definition of bract

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

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Glume :: Glume (n.) The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt..
Bractless :: Bractless (a.) Destitute of bracts.
Calyculated :: Calyculated (a.) Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.
Bracteal :: Bracteal (a.) Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
Tribracteate :: Tribracteate (a.) Having three bracts.
Bract :: Bract (n.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises..
Bracteolate :: Bracteolate (a.) Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.
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..
Bracted :: Bracted (a.) Furnished with bracts.
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..
Bractlet :: Bractlet (n.) A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers..
Bracteole :: Bracteole (n.) Same as Bractlet.
Bibracteate :: Bibracteate (a.) Furnished with, or having, two bracts..
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..
Bract :: Bract (n.) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower..
Involucre :: Involucre (n.) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head..
Calycle :: Calycle (n.) A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside..
Poinsettia :: Poinsettia (n.) A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.
Ebracteate :: Ebracteate (a.) Without bracts.
Palea :: Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc..
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