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bract

American  
[brakt] / brækt /

noun

Botany.

  1. a specialized leaf or leaflike part, usually situated at the base of a flower or inflorescence.

bract British  
/ brækt /

noun

  1. a specialized leaf, usually smaller than the foliage leaves, with a single flower or inflorescence growing in its axil

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bract Scientific  
/ brăkt /

  1. A modified leaf growing just below a flower or flower stalk. Bracts are generally small and inconspicuous, but some are showy and petallike, as the brightly colored bracts of bougainvillaea or the white or pink bracts of flowering dogwoods.

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Etymology

Origin of bract

1760–70; earlier bractea < Latin: a thin plate of metal

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Bract, brakt, n. an irregularly developed leaf at the base of the flower-stalk.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Bract, one of the leaves of a flower-cluster.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

The proper reply to such a plea is shown by Bract.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

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