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Definition of Floscule
1. n. A floret.
Definition of Floscule
1. floret [n -S] - See also: floret
Medical Definition of Floscule
1. A small flower, a floret. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floscule
Literary usage of Floscule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marvels of pond-life; or, A year's microscopic recreations among the polyps by Henry James Slack (1878)
"The beautiful floscule—Mode of seeking for ... Rotifers—Mode of illuminating the
floscule—Difficulty of seeing the transparent tube—Protrusion of long ..."
2. Tenby: A Sea-side Holiday by Philip Henry Gosse (1856)
"The beautiful floscule is ordinarily about -^th of an inch in height; but I have
seen individuals which were twice as high as this. ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1868)
"Some have a very rudimentary floscule between the cushions, and the petals ...
similar in Clypeus; others have a well-developed floscule, with conjugated ..."
4. The Intellectual Observer (1868)
"If any object strikes rudely against the long hairs of the floscule, she returns
to her cell; and shaking the table will often induce her to do the same. ..."
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