collarette

Noun

collarette (plural collarettes)

1. A small collar, especially as a kind of necklace of lace, fur etc. for women; a ruff
   • Work the 2 stitches in looped knitting; the last ten rows make a kind of gore on the lower edge of the collarette.2013, Weldon's Practical Needlework, page 70
   • Men in Sunday suits and orange collarettes swaggered to the music from uniformed flute bands.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 206
2. A small collar of inner petals or leaf-like extensions to the stem.
   • There are no recurved strap-shaped little flowers; collarette of the composite flower with scales arranged in several rows ( Fig . TVU )1917, Gaston Bonnier, Name this Flower, page 226
   • The rather inconspicuous collarette of Aspergillus contrasts with the distinctive collarette of Phialophora richardsiae (Nannf. apud Melin & Nannf.)2012, Garry T. Cole, Biology of Conidial Fungi, page 301
3. A type of dahlia having a small collar of short inner petals.
   • The Collarette dahlia is a very novel and distinct type.1914, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, page 956
4. The jagged circle in the mid-diameter of the iris, separating the darker shade of the iris from the lighter shade of the iris.
   • The edge of the pupil is soft and seems to dissolve into the collarette rather than stand apart from it.2015, Keith R. Pine, Brian H. Sloan, Robert J. Jacobs, Clinical Ocular Prosthetics, page 129
5. The rim of loosened keratin surrounding a skin lesion.
   • Occasionally, scaling may be diffuse and irregular instead of collarette of fragments of scales that from the border into the center of the lesion, like a curtain2021, Subrata Malakar, Pediatric Dermoscopy Trichoscopy & Onychoscopy, page 35
6. An advertising card fitted around the neck of a bottle.