Bracteole meaning

brăk'tē-ōl'
A small bract.
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A small bract.
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(botany) A small leaf of leaf-like structure directly subtending a flower or inflorescence whose stalk itself is subtended by a bract.
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(botany) A bract subtending an individual flower rather than an inflorescence.
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Origin of bracteole

  • Latin bracteola gold leaf diminutive of bractea bract
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bracteole Sentence Examples

  • The pale is now generally considered to represent the single bracteole, characteristic of Monocotyledons, the binerved structure being the result of the pressure of the axis of the spikelet during the development of the pale, as in Iris and others.

  • Longitudinal section of flower; v, bracteole on the peduncle; 1, sepals; ls, appendage of sepal; c, petals; cs, spur of the lower petals; fs, glandular appendage of the lower stamens; a, anthers.

  • bundles in tangential section; br, bracts; d, short axillary shoot, bearing a bracteole and a terminal ovule; i, integument; n, nucellus of ovule; ov, another ovule seen from the outside.

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