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RAY FLORET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ray floret mean?
• RAY FLORET (noun)
The noun RAY FLORET has 1 sense:
1. small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower
Familiarity information: RAY FLORET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
ray floret; ray flower
Hypernyms ("ray floret" is a kind of...):
bloom; blossom; flower (reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts)
Holonyms ("ray floret" is a part of...):
flower head (a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae)
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