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FromLatinbractea(“a thin plate of metal; gold leaf”).

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bract (pluralbracts)

  2. (botany) Aleaf or leaf-like structure from theaxil out of which a stalk of aflower or aninflorescence arises.
    • 1789,Erasmus Darwin,The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 9:
      In this vegetable monster thebractes, or divisions of the spike, become wonderfully enlarged; and are converted into leaves.
    • 1793, Thomas Martyn,The Language of Botany:
      A Verticil or Whirl may be[…]Naked; that is without involucre,bracte or brittle. Bracted - or Involucred
    • 2017,Benjamin Myers,The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published2019, page31:
      Great dense patches of them grew, four and five and six feet deep, impenetrable swathes of dark greenbracts that advertised their danger.

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leaf or leaf-like structure
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