Meanings of bract in English

John Muir relished the technical language of botany (bract, bole, pistillate) but also delighted in his own coinages.

Except where it is terminal it arises, like the leaf-shoot, in the axil of a leaf, which is then known as a bract.

In situ hybridization experiments showed that it is strongly expressed in the inflorescence bract, petal and stamen primordial tissues throughout the inflorescence development.

The bud is wrapped or folded within a number of bracts.

Its expression signals were also detected in stems, leaf primordial tissues and developing inflorescence bracts.

This is of herbaceous growth, and remarkable for the large cream-coloured flower bracts, and showy red fruit.

Inflorescences were covered for up to 3 days after the first opening of the bracts (e.g.

Petaloid coloration of the ordinary leaves, or of the bracts, is mentioned under the chapter relating to colour.

X. c. 12; Bract, fol.

A favourite annual variety is Blue Beard, growing eighteen inches high and presenting long spikes of bright purple bracts.

As to bailiffs, see Bract.

Mr. Thompson remarks that in the Pastime gooseberry "extra bracts are often attached to the sides of the fruit."

They are bold, handsome plants, with stately spikes, 2 to 3 ft. high, of flowers with spiny bracts.

The Royal Horticultural Society's encyclopaedia puts "that it bears pendant spikes" of four inches long, of white flowers among dark purple-red bracts.

The actual flowers are an insignificant centre point of the main attraction, four perfectly drawn bracts which taper at both ends like a beamy canoe.

True Chamomile flowers may be known from spurious ones (of the Feverfew) which have no bracts on the receptacle when the florets are removed.