Bracteole

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small bract.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small leaf of leaf-like structure directly subtending a flower or inflorescence whose stalk itself is subtended by a bract.
  • n. A bract subtending an individual flower rather than an inflorescence.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as bractlet.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, a little bract situated on a partial flower-stalk or pedicel, between the bract and the calyx, and usually smaller than the true bract. Also called bractlet. See cut under bract.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small bract
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bract   
    Variant
    bractlet   
     
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