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How to use bract in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Bract means a leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises. Example: “The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.”

Examples of bract by meaning

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

  • Great dense patches of them grew, four and five and six feet deep, impenetrable swathes of dark green bracts that advertised their danger.2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 31
  • When you peel away the bracts and reveal the soft heart, you have reached what Ms.2026 May 11, Amanda Schupak, “How Healthy Are Artichokes?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

More sentences with bract

  • The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.From the entry lacerate
  • The laminae of these bracts are reduced so that only very short leaf tips are present.1975, Boissiera, volume 24, page 137. From the entry podocarpium
  • Bracts apparently at the apex of the pedicels, calathiform, c. 3 mm in diameter, the cavity c. 2 mm deep.1966, J. Lanjouw, P. F. Baron Van Heerdt, “Quiinaceae”, in A. Pulle, editor, Flora of Suriname, volume III, part I: Dyalypetalae, Leiden…. From the entry calathiform
  • A serrous bract subtends each floral bud.1964, Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India: Biological Sciences, volume 30, National Institute of Sciences of India…. From the entry serrous
  • The fruit of pineapple is a sorosis developing from numerous sessile flowers that are connote with their subtending bracts and with one another.2017, Maria Gloria Lobo, Robert E. Paull, Handbook of Pineapple Technology. From the entry sorosis
  • To understand the genus more fully, the enthusiastic student should research its additional specialized structures such as rhizoids, airshoots, scales, bracts, bracteoles, and quadrifid glands.2006, Barry A. Rice, Barry Meyers-Rice, Growing Carnivorous Plants, page 150. From the entry airshoot
  • An interesting feature of the plant was the occasional incidence of radiate, mostly unbranched bracts in the cystocarp, giving it an echinulate appearance.1970, Lewis Herrick Flint, Freshwater Red Algae of North America, page 76. From the entry echinulate
  • Artichokes are used as fresh, canned or frozen vegetables — the receptacle (“bottom”) and the inner, soft bracts (“hearts”) are the edible parts of the capitule.2019, Abraham H. Halevy, Handbook of Flowering: Volume II. From the entry capitule

Meaning of bract

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

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Questions about bract in a sentence

How do you use bract in a sentence?
Bract is used as a noun. For example: “The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.”
What is a short sentence with bract?
“A serrous bract subtends each floral bud.”
What does bract mean?
Bract means a leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.

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