1. Small bracts; reduced or modified leaves that occur near flowers or in flower clusters.
Usage: botany; plural form of bractlet

Examples

• The bractlets surrounding the flower head were narrow and scale-like.
• Botanists examined the bractlets to help classify the plant species.
• The inflorescence displayed prominent bractlets at the base of each floret.
• These tiny bractlets serve to protect the developing flowers.
• The arrangement of bractlets is an important diagnostic feature in plant taxonomy.