Grass Bract Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 10, 2023

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	noun • The interior chaff or husk of grasses. • One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower. • A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
	51%	9		Bract or bract-like structure surrounding a group of flowers
	noun • a highly conspicuous bract or bract pair or ring of bracts at the base of an inflorescence
	44%	5		Bract on a spikelet of grass
	noun • small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae

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New York Times10 Sep 1976	Across 49
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