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Definition of Bracteate
1. Adjective. Having bracts.
Definition of Bracteate
1. a. Having a bract or bracts.
Definition of Bracteate
1. Adjective. (botany) Having bracts. ¹
2. Adjective. Made of thin, beaten metal (of coins, ornaments etc. with a hollow underside). ¹
3. Noun. A bracteate coin or other object. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bracteate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Bracteate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bracteate
Literary usage of Bracteate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"sessile, stamens 6-8, fruiting racemes slender, pedicels bracteate in the middle,
... fern, racemes very long, fern, pedicel bracteate at the base, ..."
2. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"stem ascending; leaves ovate-lanceolate and obovate, rough on the margin; flowers
aggregated, subsessile, bracteate ; lobes of the calyx unequal, ..."
3. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"channelled towards the base; spikes ^-| in. diam., separated by Jl In., female
often interrupted, bracteate ; female flowers bracteate, perianth- scales ..."
4. The Conquest of Britain by the Saxons: A Harmony of the "Historia Britonum by Daniel Henry Haigh (1861)
"As, then, this M occurs on a bracteate (No. 102) found in the district of Carls-
krona, we must assign to the other character a different value, ..."
5. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish by William Robert Wilde, Royal Irish Academy Museum (1862)
"... and which have been found great numbers in Scandinavia, particularly in Denmark
and Sweden, are bracteate medals, mostly of Grecian or Oriental origin, ..."
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