Bracts is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BRACTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• BRACT, any reduced leaflike structure associated with a cone or flower
• 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.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a leaflike plant part

Words related to BRACTS

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How to use BRACTS in a sentence

• This is of herbaceous growth, and remarkable for the large cream-coloured flower bracts, and showy red fruit.
• An evergreen shrub, with oblong, light green leaves and terminal inconspicuous greenish flowers, surrounded by an involucre of four large, pinky-yellow bracts.
• It bears elegant spikes of white flowers from May onwards, followed by red bracts in September, and is readily propagated by seeds.
• A favourite annual variety is Blue Beard, growing eighteen inches high and presenting long spikes of bright purple bracts.
• The free edges always point away from the root of the fibre, just as do the bracts of a fir cone.
• The bracts of Hemlock, at the base of the umbels, go only half way round the stem.
• It is when the big buds swell and send out yellowish green leaves surrounded by large, red bracts.
• The bracts soon fall, but the leaves turn a rich green and are attractive until early fall, when they are sometimes yellow, and sometimes drop without any marked coloring.

Similar words containing BRACT without suffix s

bract9 bracted12 bracteal12 bractlet12 bracteate13 bracteole13 bractless13 bractlets13 bracteates14 bracteoles14 ebracteate14 bracteolate15 ebracteolate16

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