bract

English

Etymology

From Latin bractea (“a thin plate of metal; gold leaf”).

Noun

bract (plural bracts)

1. (botany) A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.

Translations

leaf or leaf-like structure

• Catalan: bràctea f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 苞片 (zh) (bāopiàn)

• Finnish: suojuslehti
• French: bractée (fr) f
• Galician: bráctea (gl)
• German: Tragblatt (de) n
• Greek: βράκτιο (el) n (vráktio)
• Italian: brattea f
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• Japanese: 苞 (ja) (ほう, hō), 苞葉 (ほうよう, hōyō)
• Macedonian: прицветник m (pricvetnik), плодна лушпа f (plodna lušpa) (conifers)
• Maori: emiemi
• Polish: przykwiatek m
• Portuguese: bráctea f
• Romanian: bractee (ro) f
• Russian: прицве́тник (ru) m (pricvétnik)
• Spanish: bráctea (es) f