floret

Example Sentences

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Taste a leaf of baby kale, a purple carrot, a fresh broccoli floret — really taste it.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2022

He did exactly that one February day when he spied a single, backlit floret of a faded Hydrangea paniculata that was still hanging on.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2022

The direct application of heat to the outside of each floret creates an actual chemical change, as the sugars and amino acids inside the vegetable rearrange themselves.

From New York Times • May 4, 2022

The student, Trevon Grimes, had a temple-fade haircut so bushy on top that classmates compared his head to a broccoli floret.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 1, 2017

But in the rare instances where it does prolong its growth, it may repeat the abnormality and bear a second floret above the first.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de