BRACT

An Illustrated Encyclopaedic Medical Dictionary · 1891 · p. 3

n. Bra?kt. Lat., bractea. Fr., bractée. Ger., Deck blatt, Nebenblatt. It., bratiea. Sp., bractea. 1. In botany, a modified leaf from the axil of which a flower or its pedicel springs. [A, 354.] 2 In zoology, see HypRoPHYLLIUM.