floweret

plural flowerets · alternative flowerette · alternative archaic flow'ret

1. A floret, or small or component flower

   And, hark! she whispers in the zephyr's voice, Lift up thy head, fair floweret, and rejoice!

   1828, Thomas Gent, Poems (1828)

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   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 Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 46, column 1

   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