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A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.

A bract.

Having the nature or appearance of a bract.

Having a bract or bracts.

Furnished with bracts.

Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

Same as Bractlet.

Destitute of bracts.

A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers. Gray.

Furnished with, or having, two bracts.

Without bracts.

Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.

Having three bracts.

e order Nyctoginaceæ, from tropical South America, having the flowers surrounded by large bracts.

A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the bracts of a calycle.

Having a set of bracts resembling a calyx.

The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositæ, as the sunflower. Gray. Chaff cutter, a machine for cutting, up straw, etc., into "chaff" for the use of cattle.

The bracteal covering of the flowers or seeds of grain and grasses; esp., an outer husk or bract of a spikelt. Gray.

On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.