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Flosculous :: Flosculous (a.) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.

Radiatiform :: Radiatiform (a.) Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower..

Corollet :: Corollet (n.) A floret in an aggregate flower.

Homochromous :: Homochromous (a.) Having all the florets in the same flower head of the same color.

Semifloscule :: Semifloscule (n.) A floscule, or florest, with its corolla prolonged into a strap-shaped petal; -- called also semifloret..

Semifloret :: Semifloret (n.) See Semifloscule.

Hemigamous :: Hemigamous (a.) Having one of the two florets in the same spikelet neuter, and the other unisexual, whether male or female; -- said of grasses..

Radius :: Radius (n.) A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2..

Ray :: Ray (n.) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius..

Strap :: Strap (n.) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy..

Semiflosculous :: Semiflosculous (a.) Having all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion..

Floweret :: Floweret (n.) A small flower; a floret.

Aggregate :: Aggregate (a.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry..

Floscule :: Floscule (n.) A floret.

Floret :: Floret (n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.

Tubulous :: Tubulous (a.) Containing, or consisting of, small tubes; specifically (Bot.), composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower..

Composite :: Composite (v. t.) Belonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion..

Rhachilla :: Rhachilla (n.) A branch of inflorescence; the zigzag axis on which the florets are arranged in the spikelets of grasses.

Compositae :: Compositae (n. pl.) A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples..

Radiate :: Radiate (a.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc..

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