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floret

 
Dictionary: flo·ret
(flôr'ĭt, -ĕt) pronunciation
n.
  1. A small or reduced flower, especially one of the grasses and composite plants, such as a daisy.
  2. Any of the tight, branched clusters of flower buds that together form a head of cauliflower or broccoli.

[Middle English flouret, from Old French florete, diminutive of flor, flower. See flower.]


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noun

    The showy reproductive structure of a plant: bloom1, blossom, flower. See better/worse.


A small flower, especially one in a cluster or an inflorescence, as in the grass and daisy families (respectively, Gramineae and Compositae).

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower)


 
 

 

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