1. A leaflike or scalelike plant part, usually small, sometimes showy or brightly colored, and located just below a flower, a flower stalk, or an inflorescence.

1. A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil of which a the stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.

1. A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.
2. any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.

1. in botany, a leaf in a flower-cluster or subtending a flower, usually differing somewhat from an ordinary leaf in size, form, or texture, often much reduced, and sometimes petaloid, highly colored, and very conspicuous.
2. in zoology, a part of a hydrozoan likened to a bract of a plant; a hydrophyllium. see cuts under Athorybia and hydrophyllium.
3. A thin plate of metal used as an ornament, as, for example, one of the gold disk-like ornaments made in scandinavian countries in the viking age.
4. the oval distal exite on the appendages of certain segments of phyllopod crustaceans, as apus, probably serving a respiratory function.

1. a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence