Definition of Floscules

1. floscule [n] - See also: floscule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Floscules

florists
florists' chrysanthemum
floroon
floroons
flors
floruit
floruits
florulent
flory
floryshe
flos-ferri
floscular
floscularian
floscularians
floscule
floscules (current term)
flosculous
flosequinan
flosh
floshes
floss
floss silk
flossed
flosser
flossers
flosses
flossie
flossier
flossies
flossiest

Literary usage of Floscules

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1834)
"... consists of 10 floscules, each consisting of a leaflet and of a stamen. ... for example a Borago, consists also of 10 floscules ; but 5 of them, ..."

2. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1834)
"... consists of 10 floscules, each consisting of a leaflet and of a stamen. ... for example a Borago, consists also of 10 floscules; but 5 of them, ..."

3. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1871)
"... slender, and erect; we see further that the corona of the floscules is, with one exception, beset with seise upon the lobes only, while the whole margin ..."

4. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1831)
"... peculiarities in the manner in which compound flowers become full Radiated flowers become full sometimes by the multiplication of the floscules of the ..."

5. A System of Physiological Botany by Patrick Keith (1816)
"Radiated flowers becom full sometimes by the multiplication of the floscules o; the ray to the exclusion of the floscules of the disk, a- in Helianthus, ..."

6. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1822)
"Radiated flowers become full sometimes by Ule multiplication of the floscules of the ray to the exclusion of the ..."

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