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FLOWERET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does floweret mean?
• FLOWERET (noun)
The noun FLOWERET has 1 sense:
1. a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower)
Familiarity information: FLOWERET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
floret; floweret
Hypernyms ("floweret" is a kind of...):
bloom; blossom; flower (reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts)
Context examples
My Spring is gone, however, but it has left me that French floweret on my hands, which, in some moods, I would fain be rid of.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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