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bract

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Definitions

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

Word origin

From Latin bractea (“a thin plate of metal; gold leaf”).

Used in a sentence

  • In this vegetable monster the bractes, or divisions of the spike, become wonderfully enlarged; and are converted into leaves.
  • A Verticil or Whirl may be[…]Naked; that is without involucre, bracte or brittle. Bracted - or Involucred
  • Great dense patches of them grew, four and five and six feet deep, impenetrable swathes of dark green bracts that advertised their danger.

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