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floret

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At the very least, you can clearly break a piece off a floret to resemble a scaled version of the whole head.

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Quick take

A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for floret.

noun

A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower.

Example sentences

1

At the very least, you can clearly break a piece off a floret to resemble a scaled version of the whole head.

2

> Flower head with a mutated floret cluster (unknown species).

3

(note the social distancing sign!) and at some point I learned of a russian berry or floret with a spherical form that was white while immature but turned red when ripe, which had made me wonder about traditional peasant costume colour codings.

4

It's great billable time to have another reason to take 1 line of code with a predicate and "refactor" it into a broccoli floret of mock classes and exception handlers.

5

We (via French, I guess) have a mildly productive suffix "-ette" or "-et", as in cigar-ette, kitchen-ette (floret, bassinet, owlet).

Quote examples

1

It's great billable time to have another reason to take 1 line of code with a predicate and "refactor" it into a broccoli floret of mock classes and exception handlers.

2

We (via French, I guess) have a mildly productive suffix "-ette" or "-et", as in cigar-ette, kitchen-ette (floret, bassinet, owlet).

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use floret in a sentence?

At the very least, you can clearly break a piece off a floret to resemble a scaled version of the whole head.

What does floret mean?

A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower.

What part of speech is floret?

floret is commonly used as noun.