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In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.
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A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.
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Destitute of bracts.
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A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.
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Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.
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A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.
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Same as Bractlet.
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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.
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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.
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Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.
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A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
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Furnished with bracts.
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A bract.
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Having the nature or appearance of a bract.
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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.
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One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.
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A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.
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Having three bracts.
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A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract, and Illust. of Spadix.
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Having a bract or bracts.
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