floret
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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
On this day he looked for the menyanthes and detected it across the wide pool; and, on examination of the floret, declared that it had been in flower five days.
From Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb
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