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Flowerlike bract
Answer for the clue "Flowerlike bract ", 6 letters:
spathe
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) A large bract that envelops or subtends a whole inflorescence, typically a spadix.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a conspicuous bract surrounding or subtending a spadix or other inflorescence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spathe \Spathe\, n. [L. spatha, Gr. ?: cf. F. spathe. See Spade for digging.] (Bot.) A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract , and Illust. of Spadix . Note: The name is also given ...
Usage examples of spathe.
That was because the lily, with its fleshy spadix standing erect from among its vulvate spathe of petals, always seemed to me a mockery of what my own sexual organs look like.
Each plant was like a large jack-in-the-pulpit or love-in-a-mist or fever-tree flower, in that each thick stemmed bloom was canopied and bowered by great dark green leaves of the sort botanists called spathes and bracts.
Stepping back a pace, and with a small gasp like the cooing of a dove, the object of their attention held out a reproachful hand, soft and white as the poisonous spathe of the arum lily.