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bracteate

[ brak-tee-it, -eyt ]

adjective

  1. Also ·ٱ·Dz [] Botany. having bracts.


noun

  1. a thin coin, struck only on one face, the pattern of which shows through on the reverse face.

bracteate

/ ˈbræktɪɪt; -ˌeɪt /

adjective

  1. (of a plant) having bracts
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. archaeol a fine decorated dish or plate of precious metal
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bracteate1

From the New Latin word ٱٳܲ, dating back to 1835–45. See bract, -ate 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bracteate1

C19: from Latin ٱٳܲ gold-plated; see bract
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A golden bracteate, a kind of thin, ornamental pendant, which carried an inscription that read, “He is Odin’s man,” likely referring to an unknown king or overlord.

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A Victorian field guide, for example, describes Agrimonia in rather uncompromising terms: "Herbs with stipulate, pinnate, serrate leaves and terminal bracteate spine-like racemes of small yellow flowers."

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Flowers bracteate in a loose raceme upon a leafy stem.

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Flowers.—In interrupted spikes, having from three to nine dense, rather remote, headlike, bracteate whorls.

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The flowers are small, and white or purplish, and produced in long, pendulous, bracteate racemes from the axils of the upper leaves.

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