Definition of Bracteal

1. Adjective. Pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a bract.

Partainyms: Bract
Derivative terms: Bract

Definition of Bracteal

1. a. Having the nature or appearance of a bract.

Definition of Bracteal

1. Adjective. Having the nature or appearance of a bract. ¹

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Definition of Bracteal

1. bract [adj] - See also: bract

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bracteal

bracketry
brackets
brackish
brackishly
brackishness
brackishnesses
brackishwater
bracks
bracky
braconid
braconids
bracovirus
bracoviruses
bract
bractea
bracteal (current term)
bracteate
bracteates
bracted
bracteolate
bracteole
bracteoles
bracteose
bractiform
bractless
bractlet
bractlets
bracts
brad
bradaczekite

Literary usage of Bracteal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"In our southern species the bracteal leaves are scarcely longer ... the bracteal leaves about as long as the flower, the corolla larger, the labellum oval, ..."

2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"Bright green, 8 dm. high; the winged stems 1.5-2 mm. wide, slightly exceeding the scarcely broader leaves ; bracteal leaf about equaling the strict ..."

3. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Mohr (1901)
"... lowest bracteal leaf erect; bracts nearly equal, acv at the base with ... subtended by bracteal leaf; bracts subequal, attenuate toward the apex or ..."

4. Magazine of Zoology and Botany by Sir William Jardine, Prideaux John Selby, George Johnston (1837)
"Perianth of six whorls, each of five parts, gradually passing from the form of small fleshy bracteal scales to membranous petaloid segments ; spirally ..."

5. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"bracteal and stem leaves alike, spreading. 3. L. alopecuroides, Г.. Stem thick, terete, forking near the base, recurved, and rooting at the apex, ..."

6. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1891)
"Throughout central and southern Texas. Flowers and fruit solitary and sessile between a pair of bracteal leaves, which resemble the ca ..."

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