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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Calycular :: Calycular (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle..

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

Rosulate :: Rosulate (a.) Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and 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..

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

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

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

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