flosculen.
/ˈflɒskjuːl/ a. Something in the shape of a little flower.
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turkey-foot1932
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 53 What remained was a bright styriate floscule.
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1669 in K. Digby Closet Opened To Rdr. There needs no Rhetoricating Floscules to set it off.
2. Botany. A small blossom of a composite flower; a floret.
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1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. vi. 67 Giving the name of Floscules or Florets to the little component flowers.
1805 Edinb. Rev. 6 85 Each single anther will constitute a male floscule.
1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.
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