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

Taste a leaf of baby kale, a purple carrot, a fresh broccoli floret — really taste it.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2022

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

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

It has long been esteemed as a culinary vegetable; the parts chiefly employed being the immature receptacle or floret disk, with the lower part of the surrounding leaf-scales, which are known as “artichoke bottoms.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various