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Definition of Florets
1. floret [n] - See also: floret
Lexicographical Neighbors of Florets
Literary usage of Florets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Floret sterility of wheat, or the non-development of kernels in florets of ...
There the per cent, of sterile florets in wheats was 30 to 50 per cent. and ..."
2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1860)
"ones, but in the centre there are always to be noticed many enlarged tubular
florets ; they may be described as generally less double than those of ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"The latter open earlier than the disc-florets, and therefore at first can only be
... But soon the pollen is pushed out of the disc-florets of the same ..."
4. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1846)
"Calyx imbricate, with the marginal scales rounded, scarious, shortish, glossy,
colored; receptacle naked ; egret pilose or plumose, scabrous ; florets of ..."
5. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"The florets being perfectly sitting on each side of a zigzag spike-stalk, ...
The florets have the habit of a Poa, but unlike all others of that genus there ..."
6. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"Of ligulate perfect florets in the ... are found of genera in which the florets
are, more or left ..."
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