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

But it was the pattern in that individual floret that captured his attention, so he had zeroed in.

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

Owing to their slight stickiness and the sharp processes over their entire surface, the pollen grains, which readily cling to the hairs of insects, are transported to the two-branched, hairy stigma of an older floret.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje