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- noun Plural form of
bracteole .
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Examples
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Covered by bracts and bracteoles which are the more visible structures of the flowering part.
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Fruit bracteoles are relatively thin compared to other casuarinas.
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In 2 or 3 days the woody valves (bracteoles) open and the winged seeds are released and can be collected.
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The double involucrum, common to the genus, has its upper set of bracteoles rolled outward; they are of a brownish colour; the lower set are green and wheel-shaped during the period of a perfect ray, and they alternate with the upper ones.
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They have very short pedicels, and the whorl is supported by a bract of stem-clasping leaves, cupped, and variously shaped, as ovate and beaked; there are also supplementary bracteoles.
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She carries a faded cut-flower, got at considerable cost from a botanical garden, and as she goes she counts its petals, its stamens, its bracteoles.
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She carries a faded cut-flower, got at considerable cost from a botanical garden, and as she goes she counts its petals, its stamens, its bracteoles.
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