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floweret

floweret noun: a floret, or small or component flower.

floweret: a floret, or small or component flower
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Noun

floweret (plural flowerets)

  1. 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...
    • And, hark! she whispers in the zephyr's voice, Lift up thy head, fair floweret, and rejoice!1828, Thomas Gent, Poems (1828)

Examples of floweret in a sentence

  • 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:

Forms of floweret

pluralflowerets
alternative formflowerette
alternative form (archaic)flow'ret

Origin of floweret

From Middle English flourette, from Old French florete. By surface analysis, flower + -et; compare flowerlet. Doublet of fleuret and floret.

Questions about floweret

What does floweret mean?
Floweret means a floret, or small or component flower.
How do you use floweret in a sentence?
Handsome piece, with floweret at the apex, scrolls on the side, and a scalloped band around the middle.
What part of speech is floweret?
Floweret is a noun.
What is the plural of floweret?
The plural of floweret is flowerets.

Words near floweret in the dictionary

  1. flowered
  2. flowered silver
  3. flowerer
  4. flowerers
  5. flowerest
  6. floweret
  7. flowereth
  8. flowerets
  9. flowerette
  10. flowerettes
  11. flowerflies

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