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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..

Ebracteate :: Ebracteate (a.) Without bracts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bractea :: Bractea (n.) A bract.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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