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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Palea :: Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc..
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..
Ebracteate :: Ebracteate (a.) Without bracts.
Involucre :: Involucre (n.) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head..
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..
Squamellate :: Squamella (n.) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea..
Bibracteate :: Bibracteate (a.) Furnished with, or having, two bracts..
Bracteolate :: Bracteolate (a.) Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.
Rosulate :: Rosulate (a.) Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.
Tribracteate :: Tribracteate (a.) Having three bracts.
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..
Bractea :: Bractea (n.) A bract.
Bracteal :: Bracteal (a.) Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
Bractlet :: Bractlet (n.) A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers..
Ebracteolate :: Ebracteolate (a.) Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk..
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..
Bracteole :: Bracteole (n.) Same as Bractlet.
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..
Perigone :: Perigone (n.) In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower..
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