bract
plant structure
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bract, Modified, usually small, leaflike structure often positioned beneath aflower orinflorescence. What are often taken to be the petals of flowers are sometimes bracts—for example, the large, colourful bracts ofpoinsettias or the showy white or pink bracts ofdogwood blossoms.