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Bract

noun
1.
A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence.



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bracteal
bracteole
bractlet


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... we must needs hail our young relatives again, though with something of the gravity of adult sons and daughters receiving a late-born brother or sister. Nature herself seems a little ashamed of a law so monstrous, billions of summers, and now the old game again without a new bract or sepal. But you will think me incorrigible with my generalities, and you so near, and will be here again this summer; perhaps with A.W. and the other travellers. My children scan curiously your E.'s drawings, as they have ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes


Words linked to "Bract" :   spathe, false calyx, calycle, epicalyx, bracteole, husk, involucre, calyculus, inflorescence, glume


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