FLORET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does floret mean? 

• FLORET (noun)
  The noun FLORET has 1 sense:

1. a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower)

  Familiarity information: FLORET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLORET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

floret; floweret

Hypernyms ("floret" is a kind of...):

bloom; blossom; flower (reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts)

 Context examples 

Like all Asteraceae, the flowers are a composite inflorescence, with purple (rarely yellow or white) florets arranged in a prominent, somewhat cone-shaped head; cone-shaped because the petals of the outer ray florets, once the flower head opens, tend to point downward (are decumbent), thus forming a cone.

(Echinacea, NCI Thesaurus)