Bract vs Brant - What's the difference?
bract | brant |
(botany) A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.
Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta'', that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, ''Branta bernicla .
(dialectal) Steep, precipitous.
* Ascham
(Scotland) smooth; unwrinkled
* Burns
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As a noun bract
is (botany) a leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.As a proper noun brant is
.bract
English
(wikipedia bract)Noun
(en noun)brant
English
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain but similar to brandgas (sheldrake).Noun
(en-noun)See also
* ("brant" on Wikipedia) * (Branta)Etymology 2
From (etyl) brant. Cognate with Scots brent, Icelandic brattr .Alternative forms
* brentAdjective
(en adjective)- Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.
- Your bonnie brow was brent .