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| Matching Terms: | | braccate, brace, brace and bit, brace oneself for, brace up, brace wrench, braced, bracelet, bracelet wood, bracer, braces, brach, brachelytra, brachia, brachial, brachial artery, brachial plexus, brachial vein, brachiata, brachiate, brachiation, brachinus, brachiocephalic vein, brachioganoid, brachioganoidei, brachiolaria, brachiopod, brachiopoda, brachiopodous, brachium, brachman, brachyblast, brachycatalectic, brachycephalic, brachycephaly, brachyceral, brachychiton, brachychiton acerifolius, brachychiton australis, brachychiton populneus, brachychiton rupestris, brachycome, brachycome iberidifolia, brachycranial, brachycranic, brachydactylia, brachydactylic, brachydactylous, brachydactyly, brachydiagonal, brachydome, brachygrapher, brachygraphy, brachylogy, brachypinacoid, brachyptera, brachypteres, brachypterous, brachystegia, brachystegia speciformis, brachystochrone, brachytactyly, brachytherapy, brachytypous, brachyura, brachyural, brachyuran, brachyurous, bracing, brack, bracken, bracket, bracket abstraction, bracket fungus, bracket out, bracketed blenny, bracketing, brackish, brackishness, bracky, bractea, bracteal, bracteate, bracted, bracteolate, bracteole, bractless, bractlet
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| | Definition: | | [n] a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence |
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| | See Also: | | bracteole, calycle, calyculus, epicalyx, false calyx, glume, husk, inflorescence, involucre, spathe |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bract\, n. [See {Bractea}.] (Bot.)
(a) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant,
from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
(b) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the
base of a flower.
Note: Bracts are often inconspicuous, but sometimes large and
showy, or highly colored, as in many cactaceous plants.
The spathes of aroid plants are conspicuous forms of
bracts.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | A leaf-like structure, different in form from the foliage leaves and without an axillary bud, associated with an inflorescence or flower. |
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| | Related Terms: | | blade, bracteole, bractlet, cotyledon, flag, floral leaf, foliole, frond, glume, involucre, involucrum, lamina, leaf, leaflet, lemma, ligule, needle, petal, pile, pine needle, seed leaf, sepal, spathe, spear, spire, stipula, stipule |
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