floret

Example Sentences

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But it was the pattern in that individual floret that captured his attention, so he had zeroed in.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 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

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

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