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Definition of Floret
1. Noun. A diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower).
Definition of Floret
1. n. A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
Definition of Floret
1. Noun. A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower ¹
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Definition of Floret
1. a small flower [n -S]
Medical Definition of Floret
1. A grass flower, together with the lemma and palea that enclose it (often applied to flowers in the families Cyperaceeae and Asteraceae). (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floret
Literary usage of Floret
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"t floret except in Aira; glume-s usually longer than the first floret; 1 or more
of the florets awned on the back or from the teeth of the bifid apex (or ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Inflorescence in open . 13. li 15. 16. panicles, or contracted and spike-like.
• Callus not manifest ; floret sessile within the glumes. ..."
3. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Later palca of the perfect floret mostly with a short straight awn near the apex
... generally 2-flowered, sometimes with an intermediate abortive floret. ..."
4. Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum: Cum Descriptionibus, Synonymis, Locis by Adrian Hardy Haworth (1812)
"Willd. sp. pi. 2. p. 909.—- Hort. kew. id. 2. v. 3. p. 165. HABITAT in Austria.
H. if. floret Mai. Jun. CULT. 1805. HABITAT in Europa australi. ..."
5. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1812)
"2-valved, 2-flowered: 1 floret hermaphrodite, the other male, or else neutral.
... with 2 bristles and 1 floret. Dirks, hs-Curt.-E. hot. 874-H. ox. viii. 4. ..."
6. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... at length spreading ; spikelets 2-flowered ; the lower floret staminate,
awned ; th« upper one perfect, ..."
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