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Definition of Bract
1. Noun. A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence.
Specialized synonyms: Calycle, Calyculus, Epicalyx, False Calyx, Bracteole, Bractlet, Spathe, Involucre, Glume
Generic synonyms: Husk
Derivative terms: Bracteal
Definition of Bract
1. n. A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
Definition of Bract
1. Noun. (botany) A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil of which a the stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bract
1. a leaflike plant part [n -S] : BRACTEAL, BRACTED [adj]
Medical Definition of Bract
1. A leaf-like structure, different in form from the foliage leaves and without an axillary bud, associated with an inflorescence or flower. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bract
Literary usage of Bract
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"Spathes peduncled from the axil of the leaf-like bract cc Old leaf-bases persisting
as ... Inner bract of the spathe 1.5-8 cm. long ; stems broadly winged. ..."
2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"The position of parts which lie in antero-posterior line, or between bract and
axis, is median. Thus, in Fig. 304 and 305, the parts are all in the median ..."
3. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1895)
"bract Item is oui res res aliqua aliqua ... Inst. bract. Inst. bract. Inst. bract.
lust. bract. Inst. bract. ... Inst. bract. last. bract. Inst. bract. ..."
4. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1866)
"That part of the flower which lies next the leaf or bract from whose axil it ...
This is shown in a proper diagram by drawing a section of the bract in its ..."
5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"ADHESION OF THE bract. In the cases just mentioned the bract is predominant; it
is the most conspicuous part of the construction and we therefore commonly ..."
6. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"Nnt small coriaceous, imbedded in the base of the membranous bract 2. ...
Perianth (or bract) of simple lobed or laciniate usually very unequal scales, ..."
7. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... bearing a short slender leaf : involucral bract 1 to 10 lines long or nearly
wanting : style 3-cleft : nutlet triangular-obovoid with distinct angles, ..."
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