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▪ I. floret1|ˈflɔərɪt|
[ad. OF. florete, F. fleurette, dim. of fleur flower.]
1. Bot. One of the little flowers that go to make up a composite flower or the spikelet in grasses. florets of the disk, floret of the ray (see quot. 1866).
1671Grew Anat. Plants i. v. §18 (1682) 38 The outer Part of every Suit, is its Floret..a Floret is the Epitome of a Flower. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. vi. 69 The choke..is an assemblage of florets which are beginning to be formed. 1807J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 456 Florets of the disk furnished with stamens only. 1866Treas. Bot., The florets of the disk are those which occupy the centre of the head of a composite; while florets of the ray occupy the circumference. 1877F. E. Hulme Wild Fl. p. viii, Dandelion.—All the florets ligulate.
2. A small flower, a floweret.
1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard., Loves of Plants ii, He..Crops the young floret and the bladed herb. 1865Ruskin Sesame (ed. 2) 192 These feeble florets are lying with all their fresh leaves torn, and their stems broken.
fig.1786A. Seward Lett. (1811) I. 150, I may one day present you with my poetic florets. 1822Blackw. Mag. XI. 424 Variegated by the florets of a superficial but ornate adulation.
Add:[1.] b. Also florette. A piece of the ‘curd’ or head of broccoli, cauliflower, etc., as commonly broken up for culinary purposes. Cf. *floweret n. 2.
1948Good Housek. Cookery Bk. 322/1 An alternative method is to divide the cauliflower into florets before cooking—it cooks more evenly in this way. 1976Daily Mail (Hull) 30 Sept. 13 (Advt.), Cool Buys at the Co-op Freezer Centre... Cauliflower florettes. 1987Washington Post 23 Sept. e14/4 She will buy a few cauliflower florets on the salad bar because her family only likes it raw in salads.
▪ II. † ˈfloret2 Obs.
[ad. OFr. florete (Fr. fleuret) floss-silk. Cf. ferret n.2]
= ferret n.2 Only attrib. as floret-silk = floss-silk.
1583Rates Customho. E iv, Silk called Floret silk the pound contayning xvi. vnces. 1611Cotgr. Fleuret, course silke; floret silke. 1640Scavage Table in Entick London (1766) II. 169 Ferret or Floret silk.
Hence † ˈfloreting.
1775Romans Hist. Florida 144 This mixture is carded and called floretting.
▪ III. floret
obs. var. of fleuret2, fencing-foil. |