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Definition of Bracteal
1. Adjective. Pertaining to or resembling or functioning as a 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
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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