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Webster 1913 Edition
Bract
Bract
,Noun.
[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.
☞ 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.
Definition 2024
bract
bract
English
Noun
bract (plural bracts)
- (botany) A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.
Translations
leaf or leaf-like structure
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