How to Use bract in a Sentence

bract

noun
  • If the plants do not have at least a hint of color in the bracts, look for the light source.
    Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Siam tulip has small leaves and pink or white bract clusters.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The flowers are born in clusters of 5-7 blooms out of a long narrow pale green bract.
    Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2021
  • The tipping also encourages side stems, and at the end of each side stem a colored bract will emerge.
    Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 30 July 2020
  • The tipping also encourages more side stems and at the end of each side stem, a colored bract will emerge.
    Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 15 June 2018
  • This grows into a tall, rangy shrub whose scarlet bracts appear in the winter.
    Adrian Higgins, Houston Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Purple sage there has bloomed already, but the sage still holds bracts of drying flowers.
    Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 10 July 2017
  • However, not all the layers but only the bract scales get wet and then, most raindrops move to the inner scales.
    Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2016
  • The flowers are produced on a long, pendulous stalk with dusky purple bracts.
    NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Instead it is achieved by breeding to increase the red pigmentation in the layers of bract cells.
    Adrian Higgins, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Instead, it is achieved by breeding to increase the red pigmentation in the layers of bract cells.
    Adrian Higgins, Houston Chronicle, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Queen Anne's lace flowers also have three-pronged bracts at their base, while poison hemlock doesn't.
    Lyndsey Matthews, Country Living, 25 May 2017
  • The bract leaves help prop up the olive flower in this USDA handbook illustration.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
  • This time of year, Troy collects linden blossoms and bracts to make a calming floral tea-like tissane.
    Colleen Smith, The Denver Post, 27 June 2019
  • Some other species of dogwood don’t have bracts at all, just clusters of fluffy, delicate small flowers.
    Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The tiny yellowish-green flowers are surrounded by four showy, white, blush or pink petal-like bracts, which open flat and appear like one large white flower.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Salmon pink flowers are tiny and ephemeral, but the red and yellow bracts that surround them remain ornamental for months.
    Karen Dardick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2018
  • The bracts in some cases are thought to lead pollinators to the rather unassuming flower, like airport runway lights.
    Kenneth Setzer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2017
  • Eventually, the bracts fall and the flowers develop into bright red berries.
    Dave Taft, New York Times, 16 May 2018
  • These blooms are, in fact, the flowers’ bracts, but most gardeners naturally think of them as this handsome tree’s flowers.
    Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2018
  • Its pretty bright red color, like the deep red of holiday Poinsettia, comes not from the flower but from specialized leaves called bracts.
    Kenneth Setzer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2017
  • If allowed to mature and flower, nutsedge will send up a triangular stem with three long, leaf-like bracts at the base of each flower head (flowers in yellow nutsedge are light brown).
    Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Flowers with four petals are borne on terminal inflorescences and lack bracts.
    Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Trilliums, rarely damaged by destructive creatures other than deer, form two main groups: the sessile — flowers on top of the leaf — bract, and the pedicellate — flower is attached to a short stem.
    Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 2 May 2017
  • Its bract evolved bright Christmas hues — among other colors — to attract pollinators.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
  • More likely, however, your plant is experiencing short days in partial shade that encourages out-of-season red bracts.
    Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 27 July 2019
  • Bougainvilleas come in several different floral bract colors.
    Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Poinsettias begin the flower and colorful bract initiation process starting in mid-October.
    Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Sep. 2021

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