floret : Idioms & Phrases


ray floret

  • noun small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower
    ray flower.
WordNet

Ray flower, ∨ Ray floret

  • (Bot.), one of the marginal flowers of the capitulum in such composite plants as the aster, goldenrod, daisy, and sunflower. They have an elongated, strap-shaped corolla, while the corollas of the disk flowers are tubular and five-lobed.
Webster 1913