Crossword-Solution: BRACT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Bract | n. | A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises. |
| Bract | n. | Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower. |
We have 38 clues for the answer “BRACT”
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "BRACT"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
13 +1
New Suggestion for "BRACT"
Related word tools
Sentences with BRACT (5)
Nature herself seems a little ashamed of a law so monstrous, billions of summers, and now the old game again without a new bract or sepal.
Each flower-stalk of their long racemes is situated in the aril of such a bract, and the peculiarity is quite a natural one, corresponding exactly to what is seen in the inflorescence of other families.
The upper leaves are narrow and bract-like; those lower down gradually widen as they approach the root.
Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences.
The tulip has a tendency to produce double flowers: one specimen seen with a regular three-leaved perianth, eight stamina, and four carpellary ovary, angles opposite the outer perianth leaves; the upper leaf or bract has a tendency to become petaloid.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 38 times in crossword archives (1947–2015).