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Noun Concept
Categories: Leaves, Plant morphology
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bract  involucral bract  involucre  involucral  bracteate
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A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence WordNet 3.0
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A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Wikipedia
Modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale Wikidata
Set of bracts or floral leaves surrounding the common base of several peduncles, or enclosing several flowers similarly to a calyx. OmegaWiki
A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises. Wiktionary
Leaf or leaf-like structure. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
husk
EU
antofilo
PART OF
inflorescence
HAS KIND
bracteole
epicalyx
glume
involucre
spathe
+3 relations
DERIVATION
bracteal
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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bract
Wikipedia
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bract
Wikidata
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bract
Wiktionary
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bract
OmegaWiki
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involucral bract, involucre
Wikipedia Redirections
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bracteate (botany), bracteolate, bracteoles, bractiole, bractlets, bracts, cyathophyll, cyathophylls, ebracteate, ebracteolate, involucral, involucral bract, involucre, Prophyllum
Wikidata Alias
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bracteole, bractlet

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