Crossword-Solution: BRACT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
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The old plural of Eye.
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EEN
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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.
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 38 times in crossword archives (1947–2015).