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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..

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

Calyculated :: Calyculated (a.) Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.

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

Bractea :: Bractea (n.) A bract.

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

Tribracteate :: Tribracteate (a.) Having three bracts.

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

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..

Poinsettia :: Poinsettia (n.) A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.

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

Bibracteate :: Bibracteate (a.) Furnished with, or having, two bracts..

Leaf :: Leaf (n.) 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..

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

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..

Bractlet :: Bractlet (n.) A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers..

Xyris :: Xyris (n.) 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..

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

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

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