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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..

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

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

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

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

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

Ebracteate :: Ebracteate (a.) Without bracts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Bracteal :: Bracteal (a.) Having the nature or appearance of a bract.

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

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..

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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