transferred. The down or feathery seeds of the dandelion and thistle. ? Obsolete.

The ray (outer florets) of a typical flower of the family Asteraceae (Compositae). Obsolete.

Applied to various structures in plants or animals resembling small threads, or a tuft of these. plural. The florets of the disk in a composite…

Applied by Grew to the ‘style’ of composite flowers. Obsolete.

Botany. One of the little flowers that go to make up a composite flower or the spikelet in grasses. florets of the disk, florets of the ray (see…

in Latin form -ˈflosculus.

Botany †(a) The ray or outer whorl of ligulate florets surrounding the disc in the flower of a plant of the family Asteraceae (Compositae)…

Botany. In most plants of the family Asteraceae (Compositae): any of the radially arranged, usually strap-like, florets in the inflorescence, in many…

A floret having a ligulate corolla, as in the dandelion.

The feathery pappus on the fruits of certain plants (as dandelion and thistle) which aids in their aerial dispersal. Cf. aigrette, n. 1b. Now rare.

Botany. A small blossom of a composite flower; a floret.

An inflorescence consisting of closely spaced sessile flowers on a common receptacle, typical esp. of plants of the family Asteraceae (Compositae); =…

= pericline, n. 2.

Botany. The involucre of a plant of the family Asteraceae (Compositae). Now rare.

(see quots.).

Any of the bracts forming the involucre in plants of the family Asteraceae (Compositae).

= anthodium, n.

A small arrow. Now rare.