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Definition of Bracteoles
1. bracteole [n] - See also: bracteole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bracteoles
Literary usage of Bracteoles
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)
"... ascending from a creeping base. Leaves 2-2J in., rather thick, quite glabrous ;
stipules subulate. Male cymes with subulate bracts and bracteoles; fera. ..."
2. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"... bracteoles minute, attached to the tube of the calyx between the lips : pedicels
short : calyx about equal to the corolla, nearly glabrous, ..."
3. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"Drupe papillose, some- timss 2-winged from being adnate to the enlarged bracteoles,
stone 1-seeded. Seed erect, testa thin, albumen 0 ; cotyledons ..."
4. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"Typical diagram of a group of flowers in the Amen- tales: d bract; 6 the median
flower with its bracteoles, a and 0; VV the two lateral flowers, ..."
5. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks by William Jackson Hooker (1883)
"JD HOOKER. Fip. 1. Diagram of flower. 2. Top of spike. 3. Flower bract and bracteoles.
4. Perianth laid open. 5. Ovary. 6. ..."
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