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Bract vs Brant - What's the difference?

bract | brant |

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

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bract

English

(wikipedia bract)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.
  • brant

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origin uncertain but similar to brandgas (sheldrake).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta'', that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, ''Branta bernicla .
  • See also

    * ("brant" on Wikipedia) * (Branta)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) brant. Cognate with Scots brent, Icelandic brattr .

    Alternative forms

    * brent

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal) Steep, precipitous.
  • * Ascham
  • Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.
  • (Scotland) smooth; unwrinkled
  • * Burns
  • Your bonnie brow was brent .
    ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (transitive )

    Verb

    (head)
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