floweret

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English

Floweret

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Etymology

From Middle English flourette,[1] from Old French florete.[2] By surface analysis, flower +‎ -et; compare flowerlet. Doublet of fleuret and floret.

Noun

floweret (plural flowerets)

  1. A floret, or small or component flower
    • c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; , quarto edition, London: P S for Andrew Wise, , published 1598, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
      No more ſhall trenching war channel her fields, / Nor bruiſe her flourets with the armed hoofes / Of hoſtile paces: […]
    • 1828, Thomas Gent, Poems (1828)‎:
      And, hark! she whispers in the zephyr's voice, Lift up thy head, fair floweret, and rejoice!
    • 1879, James Stevenson, Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879‎:
      Handsome piece, with floweret at the apex, scrolls on the side, and a scalloped band around the middle.
    • 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California‎:
      The domestic sheep, on the contrary, is only a fraction of an animal, a whole flock being required to form an individual, just as numerous flowerets are required to make one complete sunflower.

References

  1. ^ “floweret”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  2. ^ “flǒuret, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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