floscule

English

Etymology

From Latin flosculus, diminutive of flos (“flower”). Compare French floscule.

Noun

floscule (plural floscules)

(botany) A floret.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for floscule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Noun

floscule

vocative singular of flosculus

References

floscule in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
floscule in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
floscule in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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