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Calycular :: Calycular (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle..

Calycle :: Calycle (n.) A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside..

Rosulate :: Rosulate (a.) Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.

Palea :: Palea (n.) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc..

Ebracteolate :: Ebracteolate (a.) Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk..

Bougainvillaea :: Bougainvillaea (n.) A genus of plants of the order Nyctoginaceae, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts..

Bracteole :: Bracteole (n.) Same as Bractlet.

Bract :: Bract (n.) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises..

Teasel :: Teasel (n.) 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..

Involucre :: Involucre (n.) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head..

Bractea :: Bractea (n.) A bract.

Purpleheart :: Purpleheart (n.) 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..

Spathe :: Spathe (n.) 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..

Bracteate :: Bracteate (a.) Having a bract or bracts.

Bracteolate :: Bracteolate (a.) Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

Inferior :: Inferior (a.) On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.

Squamellate :: Squamella (n.) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea..

Bract :: Bract (n.) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower..

Perigone :: Perigone (n.) In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower..

Bracteal :: Bracteal (a.) Having the nature or appearance of a bract.

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