Definition of "bracts" [bracts]

• Plural form of bract. (noun)

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• "The bracts are a brown color that resembles the leaf litter from which the reproductive stems emerge and cover the pinkish-purple colored buds and deep purple stems."
• "And the flowers are not really flowers at all but modified leaves called bracts, just like the bracts on the poinsettia."
• "Etruscan times down to those of the Scalas, the fashion of armour held, among the nations who wished to make themselves terrible in aspect, of putting cut plates or 'bracts' of metal, like dragons 'wings, on each side of the crest."