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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Ebracteate :: Ebracteate (a.) Without bracts.

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

Leaf :: Leaf (n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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