Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Bearing bracts.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Furnished with bracts, in any sense of that word.
- n. In numismatics, one of certain silver coins current in the middle ages, chiefly in Germany. Bracteates were first issued about the middle of the twelfth century, were of very thin material, and stamped with a design in repoussé.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having bracts.
- adj. Made of thin, beaten metal (of coins, ornaments etc. with a hollow underside).
- n. A bracteate coin or other object.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having a bract or bracts.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having bracts
Etymologies
- New Latin bracteātus, from Latin bractea, gold leaf; see bract.
Examples
“It is rather singular that each species of _Plantago_ seems to have its own perverse mode of growth; for instance, the bracteate, polystachyate and paniculate forms are almost exclusively confined to _P. major_, the roseate form to _P. media_, the proliferous form to _P. lanceolata_.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“Schlechtendal's bracteate and polystachyate divisions.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“A Polish bracteate perpetuates the memory of a pilgrimage of Duke Boleslav III to the tomb of St. Adalbert in”
“They were usually made as amulets for good luck and this bracteate shows a coiled animal.”
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knitandpurl "In 1981 a farmer found a gold bracteate – a kind of medallion, fashioned with eyelets so that it could be worn around the neck – at Undley Common, near Lakenheath in Suffolk."
- David Crystal, By Hook or By Crook p 44 Dec 15, 2008