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

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

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

Xyris :: Xyris (n.) A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bractea :: Bractea (n.) A bract.

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

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..

Ebracteate :: Ebracteate (a.) Without bracts.

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

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

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