English-Thai Dictionary

bract

N กลีบ 

 

bracteate

A ที่ มี กลีบ 

 

bracteolate

A ที่ มี กลีบ รอง 

 

bracteole

N กลีบ รอง 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BRACTEA, BRACTE

n.[L. Ainswroth writes, bractea or brattea.] In botany, a floral leaf, one of the seven fulcrums or props of plants. It differs from other leaves in shape and color, and is generally situated on the peduncle, so near the corol, as easily to be mistaken for the calyx.
In the Asiatic Researches, 4.354, this word is anglicized, and written bract.

 

BRACTEATE

a.[from bractea. ] Furnished with bractes.

 

BRACTED

a.Furnished with bractes.

 

BRACTEOLE

n.A little bract.

 

BRACTEOLATE

a.Furnished with bracteoles.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BRACT

Bract, n. Etym: [See Bractea. ] (Bot. )(a ) A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises. (b ) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.

 

Note: Bracts are often inconspicuous, but sometimes large and showy, or highly colored, as in many cactaceous plants. The spathes of aroid plants are conspicuous forms of bracts.

 

BRACTEA

Brac "te *a, n. Etym: [L., a thin plate of metal or wood, gold foil. ](Bot. )

 

Defn: A bract.

 

BRACTEAL

Brac "te *al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. bractéal.]

 

Defn: Having the nature or appearance of a bract.

 

BRACTEATE

Brac "te *ate, a. Etym: [Cf. L. bracteatus covered with gold plate. ](Bot. )

 

Defn: Having a bract or bracts.

 

BRACTED

BRACTED Bract "ed, a. (Bot. )

 

Defn: Furnished with bracts.

 

BRACTEOLATE

BRACTEOLATE Brac "te *o *late, a. (Bot. )

 

Defn: Furnished with bracteoles or bractlets.

 

BRACTEOLE

Brac "te *ole, n. Etym: [L. bracteola, dim. of bractea. See Bractea. ](Bot. )

 

Defn: Same as Bractlet.

 

BRACTLESS

BRACTLESS Bract "less, a. (Bot. )

 

Defn: Destitute of bracts.

 

BRACTLET

Bract "let, n. Etym: [Bract + -let ] (Bot. )

 

Defn: A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers. Gray.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

bract

bract |brakt brækt | ▶noun Botany a modified leaf or scale, typically small, with a flower or flower cluster in its axil. Bracts are sometimes larger and more brightly colored than the true flower, as in a poinsettia. DERIVATIVES brac te ate |-tēit, -tēˌāt |adjective ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Latin bractea ‘thin plate of metal. ’

 

bracteolate

brac te o late |ˈbraktēəlit, -ˌlāt ˈbræktiəlɪt | ▶adjective having bracteoles.

 

bracteole

brac te ole |ˈbraktēˌōl ˈbræktioʊl ˈbræktioʊl | ▶noun a small bract, esp. one on a floral stem.

 

Oxford Dictionary

bract

bract |brakt | ▶noun Botany a modified leaf or scale, typically small, with a flower or flower cluster in its axil. Bracts are sometimes larger and more brightly coloured than the true flower, as in poinsettia. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from Latin bractea ‘thin plate of metal ’.

 

bracteate

bracteate |ˈbraktɪət, -tɪeɪt | ▶adjective Botany having or bearing bracts. ▶noun Archaeology an ornament or plate of thinly beaten precious metal, typically a thin gold disc. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from Latin bracteatus, from bractea (see bract ).

 

bracteolate

brac te o late |ˈbraktēəlit, -ˌlāt ˈbræktiəlɪt | ▶adjective having bracteoles.

 

bracteole

brac te ole |ˈbraktēˌōl ˈbræktioʊl ˈbræktioʊl | ▶noun a small bract, esp. one on a floral stem.

 

Spanish Dictionary

bráctea

bráctea nombre femenino Hoja que nace del pedúnculo de las flores de algunas plantas, que tiene distinta forma, consistencia y color que la hoja normal :las brácteas del maíz .