bractlet
(ˈbræktlɪt)
[f. bract + -let.]
A minute or secondary bract.
| 1835 Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 310 When the bracts are very small they are called bractlets. 1842 Gray Struct. Bot. v. (1880) 142 Bractlets are bracts of a secondary or ultimate order. |