bracted

Thân thiện

The flower spike is bracted with small green leaves.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having bracts: Describes a plant, flower, or inflorescence that possesses bracts. A bract is a specialized leaf, often different from the plant's foliage leaves, typically located just below a flower, flower stalk, or inflorescence.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The poinsettia is a famously bracted plant, with its bright red structures often mistaken for petals.
  • Botanists noted the bracted nature of the inflorescence, which helped in identifying the species.
  • This bracted species can be distinguished from its close relative by the size and color of its bracts.

Advanced Usage

• Technical/Botanical Description: The term is primarily used in formal botanical, horticultural, or scientific contexts to describe plant morphology.
  • The genus is characterized by its bracted spikes and opposite leaves.

Variants and Related Words

• Bract (noun): The modified leaf or scale, typically small, from which a flower or flower stalk arises.
  • The yellow flowers were subtended by papery, white bracts.
• Bracteate (adjective): An alternative, less common adjective meaning "having bracts." It is synonymous with "bracted."
• Bractless (adjective): Lacking bracts.

Synonyms

• Bracteate: (Technical) Furnished with bracts.

Antonyms

• Ebracteate: (Technical) Without bracts.
• Bractless: Lacking bracts.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. having bracts

Từ đồng nghĩa

• bracteate