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How to pronounce floret in English?

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Synonyms floweret
Type of bloom, blossom, flower

Examples of floret

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Later, the sphacelia convert into a hard dry sclerotium inside the husk of the floret.
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First, cut the floret end off the stem, as close as reasonably possible.
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One is suspended close by, slowly clambering from floret to floret.
From the guardian.co.uk
For those two, I suggested they give it a try as I placed one broccoli floret their plates.
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My daughter stabbed a large floret with her fork and nodded her head.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Cut the florets in half from the stem to the top of the floret.
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Trim broccoli florets to make a small, consistent-size floret.
From the dallasnews.com
Each small floret of the large blossoms looks almost like a rose.
From the thestate.com
The latter is the only kind of floret in the Carduoideae, while the first kind is more widespread.
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  • A diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower)
  • A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds. ...
  • Florets are the small, individual flower stems that make up the heads of vegetables such as broccoli and cauliflower.
  • (FLORETS) Flowers imperfectly developed in some respects, and collected into a dense spike or head, as in the Grasses, the Dandelion, &c.
  • The flower (including the lemma and palea) of cereals and grasses.
  • In Poaceae, a single flower and its immediately subtending bracts (lemma and generally palea, the lemma subtending the palea when the latter is present); in a sterile floret, the flower and sometimes palea are rudimentary or absent. (see glume, lemma, palea, spikelet)
  • The diminutive individual flowers typically found in the Compositae.
  • An individual flower, usually small, forming part of an inflorescence, as in the Poaceae and Asteraceae.
  • Each spikelet has between 2 and 6 florets where the grains form; each floret is made up of a papery lemma with its long awn and and an opposing palea, which together form a cup for the grain. The number of grains in a spike is equal to the number of fertiles florets produced by the spike.