bracteate

[brak-tee-it, -eyt]

adjective

1. Botany.,  Also bracteose having bracts.

noun

1. a thin coin, struck only on one face, the pattern of which shows through on the reverse face.

bracteate

/ ˈbræktɪɪt, -ˌeɪt /

adjective

1. (of a plant) having bracts

noun

1. archaeol a fine decorated dish or plate of precious metal

Word History and Origins

Origin of bracteate¹

From the New Latin word bracteātus, dating back to 1835–45. See bract, -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of bracteate¹

C19: from Latin bracteātus gold-plated; see _bract

Example Sentences

A golden bracteate, a kind of thin, ornamental pendant, which carried an inscription that read, “He is Odin’s man,” likely referring to an unknown king or overlord.

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A Victorian field guide, for example, describes Agrimonia in rather uncompromising terms: "Herbs with stipulate, pinnate, serrate leaves and terminal bracteate spine-like racemes of small yellow flowers."

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Flowers bracteate in a loose raceme upon a leafy stem.

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Flowers.—In interrupted spikes, having from three to nine dense, rather remote, headlike, bracteate whorls.

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The flowers are small, and white or purplish, and produced in long, pendulous, bracteate racemes from the axils of the upper leaves.

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