Bract

What do we mean by bract?

A leaflike or scalelike plant part, usually small, sometimes showy or brightly colored, and located just below a flower, a flower stalk, or an inflorescence. noun

In botany, a leaf in a flower-cluster or subtending a flower, usually differing somewhat from an ordinary leaf in size, form, or texture, often much reduced, and sometimes petaloid, highly colored, and very conspicuous. noun

In zoology, a part of a hydrozoan likened to a bract of a plant; a hydrophyllium. See cuts under Athorybia and hydrophyllium. noun

A thin plate of metal used as an ornament, as, for example, one of the gold disk-like ornaments made in Scandinavian countries in the Viking age. noun

The oval distal exite on the appendages of certain segments of phyllopod crustaceans, as Apus, probably serving a respiratory function. noun

A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises. noun

Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower. noun

A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil of which a the stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises. noun

A modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence noun

A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.

Words that are spelled similarly to bract:
bract, brace, tract, brat, brant, brach, brack, brac, brast, fract, bratt, brait, bact, braca, ract, braut, bracy, bracht, braco, braat, bradt, bracc, bracs.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word bract:
spathe, spadix, awns, pedicel, perianth, sepal, decussate, calyx, achene, rachis, disintegrate, carex, inflorescence, abies, anthers, corolla, ovate, glabrous, petals, winged, columella, fused, sheath, spikes, lobes, flower, fleshy, cones, tubular, flowers, mosaic, scales, elliptic, seeds, hairy, bisexual, capsule, pollen, browning, stem, flowering, fruit, solitary, spike, spine, hairs, apex, bud, cone, bent, basal, fruits, mature, axis, tube, tiny, virus, resembles, tip, dorsal, cluster, curved, purple, lateral, genera, leaf, seed, thick, scale, outer, pair, visible, diameter, long, base, leaves, arranged, segments, yellow, plant, modified, length, pairs, rarely, pointed, slightly, longer, broad, minute, opposite, branches, forming, shape, straight, extension, green, brown, usually, below, dark.

Words that rhyme with bract:
act, impact, abstract, contract, fact, extract, contact, artifact, tract, redact, enact, intact, compact, exact, retract, tact, interact, attract, blacked, detract, pact, distract, react, counteract, packed, protract, subtract, transact, stacked, cracked, backed, wracked, reenact, in fact, racked, overreact, sidetracked, sacked, jacked, diffract, inexact, subcontract, hacked, fract, attacked, overact, matter of fact, stacte, whacked, sex act, tracked, calked, maced, hijacked, ransacked, yacked, bushwhacked, tacked, smacked, lacked, as a matter of fact, riot act, unpacked, eye contact, social contract, slacked, yakked, schacht, clacked, quacked, gastrointestinal tract, aleatory contract, in point of fact, thwacked, alimentary tract, futures contract, digestive tract, snacked, piggybacked, accomplished fact, accessory after the fact, suicide pact, urinary tract, backtracked, carjacked, fly contact, quasi contract, breach of contract, finding of fact, unilateral contract, vanilla extract, contrary to fact, occupational safety and health act, employment contract, nerve tract, accessory before the fact, bracht, shacked, almond extract, oral contract.

Adjectives that are often used to describe bract:
large, like, small, single, leafy, subtending, floral, long, green, inner, shaped, outer, basal, lower, membranous, narrow, leaflike, hairy, lowest, lobed, pointed, ovate, white, minute, primary, persistent, broad, linear, lanceolate, scaly, conspicuous, involucral, secondary, sterile, foliaceous, coloured, slender, short, thin, acute, tiny, chaffy, fertile, upper, spathaceous, fleshy, brown, oblong, colored, deciduous, larger, scalelike, scarious, triangular, acuminate, pale, peculiar, smaller, prominent, tubular, subulate, papery, spiny, showy, peduncular, woody, solitary, caducous, purple, enlarged, yellowish, inflated, pubescent, glumaceous, fused, corresponding, characteristic, frego, yellow, petaloid, erect, lowermost, peltate, stipular.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective bract:
scales, cells.

Consonant match to bract:
brecht, bricked, brooked, braked, bracht.

Words that sound like bract:
bract, bracht, brecht, bricked, braked, brooked, bricht, braucht, pracht, brat, bracket, backed, brack, bragged, brak, bratt, brac, brackett, braque, bact, burked, bracts, bracco, braquet, bracky, pricked, proct, precht, break, bright, brick, brag, brake, baked, brad, brett, booked, brate, bret, breached, baroque, breakout, blacked, braggart, barrette, bragg, bric, brags, breck, biked, brekkie, barette, brek, balked, brekky, brekke, borate, brik, braggy, bricky, brike, breeched, break out, brax, beaked, brast, breit, bracks, berat, braut, brickie, breet, barach, becht, bracker, barritt, becked, brette, brickey, brait, braggs, brech, brassed, brache, braky, bracher, barracked, braco, brachy, brachi, baraca, brique, brc, briet, braca, break-out, bragget, braat, bricco, brca.