bracteate

American  

[brak-tee-it, -eyt] / ˈbræk ti ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

adjective

1. Botany. Also bracteose having bracts.

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noun

1. a thin coin, struck only on one face, the pattern of which shows through on the reverse face.

bracteate British  

/ ˈbræktɪɪt, -ˌeɪt /

adjective

1. (of a plant) having bracts

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noun

1. archaeol a fine decorated dish or plate of precious metal

Etymology

Origin of bracteate

From the New Latin word bracteātus, dating back to 1835–45. See bract, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

A golden bracteate, a kind of thin, ornamental pendant, which carried an inscription that read, “He is Odin’s man,” likely referring to an unknown king or overlord.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2023

“That kind of mythology can take us further and have us reinvestigate all the other 200 bracteate inscriptions that we know,” Imer said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2023

A Victorian field guide, for example, describes Agrimonia in rather uncompromising terms: "Herbs with stipulate, pinnate, serrate leaves and terminal bracteate spine-like racemes of small yellow flowers."

From The Guardian • May 31, 2012

These specimens would therefore seem to be intermediate between Schlechtendal's bracteate and polystachyate divisions.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Flower-panicles.—Distaff-shaped; three or more feet long; at the summit of a leafless bracteate scape, ten or fifteen feet high.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth