The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PALEA , but the solution may also be SPATHE which is one of the most recent solution (1989 in New York Times).
Floral bract crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PALEA | 50 % | 5 |
| SPATHE | 50 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Floral bract
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- involucre
- spathe
- bracteole
- inferior
- glume
- scale
- bractlet
- palea
- aletris aurea
- bird of paradise
- bougainvillea
- carline
Crossword Answer definitions
PALEA noun- The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
- One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, such as the sunflower.
- A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result PALEA
- Chaffy bract
- Bract.
- Flower bract.
- Bract enclosing the flower, in grasses.
- Chaffy bract at base of flower.
- Bract of a flower.
- Particle of chaff.
- Plant part.
- Floral bract.
- Leaf around a floret.