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Bracteole

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small leaf of leaf-like structure directly subtending a flower or inflorescence whose stalk itself is subtended by a bract.
  2. 2
    a small bract wordnet
  3. 3
    A bract subtending an individual flower rather than an inflorescence.

Etymology

By surface analysis, bract + -eole (second element from -ea + -ole).

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