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prettygoodwordbract - n., a modified leaf growing just below and protecting a flower.
Usually green -- the stuff that surrounds the bud -- but some bracts are so modified as to be mistakable for petals, as with bougainvillea. From Latin bractea, a thin plate of metal.
---L.
Usually green -- the stuff that surrounds the bud -- but some bracts are so modified as to be mistakable for petals, as with bougainvillea. From Latin bractea, a thin plate of metal.
---L.
