bracteate

American  

[brak-tee-it, -eyt] / ˈbræk ti ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

adjective

1. Botany. Also bracteose having bracts.

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noun

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

bracteate British  

/ ˈbræktɪɪt, -ˌeɪt /

adjective

1. (of a plant) having bracts

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noun

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

Etymology

Origin of bracteate

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

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.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2023

“That kind of mythology can take us further and have us reinvestigate all the other 200 bracteate inscriptions that we know,” Imer said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2023

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."

From The Guardian • May 31, 2012

Stem 1–2° high, beset with purplish scales, the lower sheathing; flowers racemed, bracteate, brownish-purple, 6–8´´ long.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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

From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan