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Definition of Bractless
1. a. Destitute of bracts.
Definition of Bractless
1. Adjective. (botany) Without bracts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bractless
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Bractless
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bractless
Literary usage of Bractless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"Flowers bractless, In > »pike-like raceme terminating a ... Flowers small, in a
spiked raceme, bractless. ..."
2. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"... dissected and the bractless flowers in axillary peduncled racemes. Calyx without
appendages at the sinuses, and usually much enlarged under the fruit. ..."
3. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Low hairy herbs, with entire alternate leaves, and email white or blue flowers
in terminal bractless racemes. 1. M. palustris, With. ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"... blunt at the apex or sometimes emarginate; pedicels slender, i-flowered,
several often appearing from near the same point, bractless; calyx-lobes ovate, ..."
5. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"lanceolate, hirsute beneath: flowers alternate in a very long raceme, rarely
sub-verticillate, bractless: pedicels longer than the deciduous, ..."
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