Bract

1. n. Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.
2. n. A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.