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Example sentences for "like bracts"

  • It is like a small edition of the hedge bind weed, only its calyx lacks the leaf-like bracts at its base, its slender stem rarely exceeds two feet in length, and the little pink and white flowers often grow in pairs.

  • From the midst of this whorl comes a cluster of minute greenish florets, encircled by four to six large, showy, white petal-like bracts, quite like a small edition of the flowering dogwood blossom.

  • Flowers destitute of proper perianth, except sometimes small scales or bristles, but covered by scale-like bracts or glumes.

  • Heads spicate or racemose in the axils of leaves or leaf-like bracts; fertile flowers with evident corolla.

  • Juice milky; apparent flowers consisting of a few white or colored petal-like bracts, inclosing a few inconspicuous flowers without petals.

  • Flowers not in dense heads, and not subtended by petal-like bracts --162.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about one; before his; like amount; like appendages; like bodies; like children; like creatures; like everybody; like face; like fate; like forms; like kind; like maner; like most; like nature; like one; like process; like scales; like structure; like that; like thine; like true; like you; liked best; strange adventures; your feet