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Look up: floret

  1. Floret
    Lemma and palea with the enclosed flower, they may be bisexual and perfect, or unisexual and male or female or infertile. Individual small flower, as in grasses or composites.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  2. floret
    [n] - a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Floret
    A very small flower, especially one that is part of a flower head as in plants of the daisy family
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  4. Floret
    A very small flower, especially one of the disk flowers of plants in the composite family.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20901

  5. Floret
    Flo'ret noun [ Old French florete , French fleurette , dim. of Old French lor , French fleur . See Flower , and confer Floweret , 3d Ferret .] 1. (Botany) A little flower; one of the num...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/46

  6. floret
    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) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. Floret
    • (n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing. • (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.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. floret
    (from the article `Asteraceae`) Members of the family have flower heads composed of many small flowers, called florets, that are surrounded by bracts (leaflike structures). ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/38

  9. Floret
    A floret is a single small flower in a compact inflorescence, as in the compound flower of the Compositae, or in the spikelet of grasses.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  10. floret
    Small flower, usually making up part of a larger, composite flower head. There are often two different types present on one flower head: disc florets in the central area, and ray florets around the edge which usually have a single petal known as the ligule. In the common daisy, for example, the disc florets are yellow, while the ligules are whi...
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