bract
Example Sentences
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The real flowers are small, yellow and appear at the tip of the stem surrounded by the bract.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2023
A dogwood poinsettia that McLaughlin grew from seed he received from Le Duc is central to the exhibit, though it looks pretty prosaic — a lanky vase-shaped shrub with small white bract clusters.
From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2017
Instead it is achieved by breeding to increase the red pigmentation in the layers of bract cells.
From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2017
Visitors get to see what the wildling looks like, a tall, leggy bush with bract clusters isolated at the end of long branches.
From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2017
Flowers.—Without sepals and petals, sunk in a conical spike; six to eighteen lines long; a small white bract under each flower.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
