"Bractlet" is a word in ENGLISH
A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself
on a main stalk that support several flowers.
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
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On a drive in the country, a city slicker noticed a farmer lifting a pig up to an apple tree and holding the pig there as it ate one apple after another."Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about," said the city slicker, "but if you just shook the tree so the apples fell to the ground, wouldn't it save a lot of time?""Time?" said the farmer. "What does time matter to a pig?"
A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed …
Read the complete definitionHaving a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.
Read the complete definitionHaving the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses.
Read the complete definitionalaw (not without l) v [A; a12] {1} watch s. o. from hiding unobserved. Iring nga nag-alaw sa pisù, The …
Read the complete definitionamamakul n k. o. edible mushroom that grows on decayed ba-nana stalks. It has a slender stem, thin skin, and …
Read the complete definitionThe candied leaf stalks of angelica.
Read the complete definitionAn aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in …
Read the complete definitionángkag - (B) The peeled off layers or folds of a banana-stem or other stalk similar to it in construction. …
Read the complete definitionAny tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
Read the complete definitionapungángo - Stalk, stem on which a flower or fruit grows. (cf. pungángo).
Read the complete definitionResembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree.
Read the complete definitionbakbak n abaca hemp made from the outer stalks of the abaca.
Read the complete definitionbalagúbay - The fruit-stalk of the coconut palm. (cf. balayóbay).
Read the complete definitionbalayóbay - (H) The fruit-stalk of the coconut-palm, betelnut, etc. (cf. barayóbay id.).
Read the complete definitionAny cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and …
Read the complete definitionbáwog - A bunch of coconuts growing on one stalk. Iníng isá ka báwog may napúlò ka lubí. There are …
Read the complete definitionA compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
Read the complete definitionMarked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.
Read the complete definitionA reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
Read the complete definitionA bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.
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