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floret

Today it means: A small flower, especially one of a cluster in a composite flower. Full definition →

Old French florete

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Old French · derived fromflorete
English todayfloret

From Old French florete, diminutive of flor (“flower”). Doublet of fleuret and floweret.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchflorete all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.