Botanical Words Alphabetical List - BR

BRACT: A modified leaf at the base of a flower or flower cluster. It may resemble a normal leaf, be reduced and scale-like in appearance, or large and brilliantly colored.

BRACTEATE: Having bracts.

BRANCH: A stem growing from the trunk of a tree, shrub, or other plant (the smaller offshoots are called branchlets, twigs, or shoots); a bough.

BREED: A group of plants, developed by man, which will not keep their characteristics in the wild.

BRISTLE: A stiff, sharp hair on a plant.

BROAD-BASE TERRACE: A low embankment that is constructed across a slope to reduce runoff and/or erosion.

BROADCAST: Scattered upon the ground with the hand, as in sowing seed, instead of sowing in drills or rows.

BROWN FOREST SOIL: A soil rich in humus with a dark brown surface soil.

BROWN PODZOLIC SOIL: A mixed humus and mineral soil with a thin mat of decayed leaves; usually found under a deciduous (leafy) or mixed deciduous and coniferous forest.

BROWN SOIL: A brown surface soil found under grasses and shrubs that gets lighter in color the deeper you dig.

BRUSH: The small trees and shrubs of a wood; a thicket or small trees; scrub.

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