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Look up: bracteate

  1. bracteate
    [adj] - having bracts
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Bracteate
    Brac'te·ate adjective [ Confer L. bracteatus covered with gold plate.] (Botany) Having a bract or bracts.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/90

  3. bracteate
    <botany> Having a bract or bracts. ... Origin: Cf.L. Bracteatus covered with gold plate. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  4. bracteate
    bracted adjective having bracts
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. Bracteate
    A `bracteate` (from the Latin `bractea`, a thin piece of metal) is a flat, thin, single-sided gold coin produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age (in Sweden this includes the Vendel era), but the name is also used for later produced coins of silver produced in central Europe during the early Middle Ages. There are also described pieces from the Hun caucases and the Hunnic invasion of India, in ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracteate

  6. Bracteate
    • (a.) Having a bract or bracts.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. bracteate
    (from the article `coin`) ...the right of coinage to various ecclesiastical foundations. Bern was allowed a mint by the emperor Frederick II in 1218, and other towns and ... ...not easily be obtained by one blow; hence there evolved a method of striking one half of the coin with a slightly inclined upper die, which was ... [2 related...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/104

  8. bracteate
    thin, gold, disk-shaped pendant peculiar to early Scandinavian civilizations. Bracteates were produced by first carving the design in relief on some ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/104


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