floret

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Full of the emotion of the evening, she held it together in soft pastel knits and floret applique tops and dresses that epitomized femininity.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024

The direct application of heat to the outside of each floret creates an actual chemical change, as the sugars and amino acids inside the vegetable rearrange themselves.

From New York Times • May 4, 2022

It’s homely but exceptional, and I’ll fight anyone at the table for the last floret.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2018

The student, Trevon Grimes, had a temple-fade haircut so bushy on top that classmates compared his head to a broccoli floret.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 1, 2017

Panicum virgatum L. Achene surrounded by two persistent shining pieces, the floret; floral glume hard, light brown, oval or ovate-lanceolate 2.5–3.1 mm. long.

From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)