floret
pronunciation
How to pronounce floret in British English:
UK [ˈflɒrət]
How to pronounce floret in American English:
US [ˈflɔrət]
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- Noun:
- a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower)
Word Origin
- floret (n.)
- c. 1400, flourette, "a little flower, a bud," from Old French florete "little flower," also the name of a cheap silk material, diminutive of flor "flower, blossom" (see flower (n.)). Botany sense "small flower in a cluster" is from 1670s.
Example
- 1. Floret preparation goes and its brother elder sisters left .
- 2. Times length of spikelet ; lower floret usually staminate .
- 3. Glumes laxly appressed to floret , distinctly keeled .
- 4. The flattened fertile floret and caryopsis are the most reliable distinguishing features .
- 5. Lower floret of sessile spikelet staminate , with well-developed palea .