floweret
nounEtymology From Middle English flourette, from Old French florete. By surface analysis, flower + -et; compare flowerlet. Doublet of fleuret and floret.
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A floret, or small or component flower
- No more ſhall trenching Warre channell her fields, / Nor bruiſe her Flowrets with the Armed hoofes / Of hoſtile paces.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 46, column 1:
- And, hark! she whispers in the zephyr's voice, Lift up thy head, fair floweret, and rejoice!1828, Thomas Gent, Poems (1828):
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- Handsome piece, with floweret at the apex, scrolls on the side, and a scalloped band around the middle.1879, James Stevenson, Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879:
- 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.1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California: