Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Botany Bearing bracts.
- noun A thin, coinlike, usually gold medallion or pendant produced especially by Germanic peoples during the early Middle Ages.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with bracts, in any sense of that word.
- noun In numismatics, one of certain silver coins current in the middle ages, chiefly in Germany.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having a bract or bracts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having
bracts . - adjective Made of thin, beaten
metal (of coins, ornaments etc. with a hollow underside). - noun A bracteate
coin or other object.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having bracts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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 Maxwell T. Masters
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Schlechtendal's bracteate and polystachyate divisions.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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A Polish bracteate perpetuates the memory of a pilgrimage of Duke Boleslav III to the tomb of St. Adalbert in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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They were usually made as amulets for good luck and this bracteate shows a coiled animal.
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Håkon Reiersen, an associate professor at the museum, said the gold pendants – flat, thin, single-sided gold medals called bracteates – dated from the so-called migration period in Norway, which ran between AD400 and about AD550, when there were widespread migrations in Europe.
Metal detectorist makes Norway’s ‘gold find of century’ Staff and agencies in Oslo 2023
knitandpurl commented on the word bracteate
"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
December 15, 2008