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Definition of Bractlet
1. Noun. A small bract.
Definition of Bractlet
1. n. A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.
Definition of Bractlet
1. Noun. (botany) A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that supports several flowers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bractlet
1. a small bract [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bractlet
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bractlet
Literary usage of Bractlet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Rudimentary bractlet 1 only; thyrse from ovoid-oblong to oblong-cylindrical.
above the base; wings narrow, pale green 2. P. caroliniana. ..."
2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"In axillary inflorescence, the distinction between bractlet and bract is obvious:
in case of a solitary terminal flower, there is no ground of difference: ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Pistillate flowers in small terminal aments, 2 to each bract, consisting of a
2-celled ovary adnate to a calyx and subtended by a flat persistent bractlet, ..."
4. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"The Relations of Bract, bractlet, and Flower should here be noticed, ...
In axillary inflorescence, the distinction between bractlet and bract is obvious: ..."
5. 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)
"Kacb nut subtended by an enlarged spreading leafy bractlet. ... tipped with 2
long-linear stigmas, and inclosed in a tubular bractlet, which in fruit ..."
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