Definition of Ebracteate

1. Adjective. Without bracts.

Partainyms: Bract
Antonyms: Bracteate

Definition of Ebracteate

1. a. Without bracts.

Definition of Ebracteate

1. Adjective. (botany) Having no bracts ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Ebracteate

1. Without bracts. Origin: Pref. E- + bracteate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ebracteate

ebonists
ebonite
ebonites
ebonize
ebonized
ebonizes
ebonizing
ebons
ebony
ebony family
ebony spleenwort
ebonylike
ebook
ebooks
eboshi
ebracteate (current term)
ebracteolate
ebranlement
ebriate
ebriated
ebrieties
ebriety
ebriose
ebriosity
ebrious
ebrotidine
ebstein anomaly
ebullated
ebullating

Literary usage of Ebracteate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1885)
"... free round the base of the style. * Scar in the basal half of the nutlet. Racemes ebracteate. Nutlets 4 15. ... ebracteate. Corolla-lobes distinct. ..."

2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1902)
"855, I stated that I thought it was ebracteate H. Breu-eri. In his Flora of Anglesey and Carnarvon, p. 17, Mr. Griffith says " I have sown seeds of the ..."

3. Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver (1868)
"An erect often more or has hairy herb with spreading pinnatifid or sometimes entire radical leaves and elongate ebracteate racemes. Pedicels slender, patent ..."

4. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"DISTRIB. N. and Alpine Europe, N. Asia. 3. O. dioica, L, ; leaves setaceous, spikelet ebracteate dioecious or male below, glumes many, ..."

5. A Class-book of Botany by Alphonso Wood (1851)
"Glabrous, prostrate ; Ivs. oval, entire, sessile or clasping, obscurely many- veined ; pedicels ebracteate, nearly as long as the leaves ; cal. lower seg. ..."

6. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1897)
"... inflorescence ebracteate : stems mostly simple : sepals obtuse, ... and acute : inflorescence ebracteate : pods broad except in S. campestris. ..."

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