floweret

[flou-er-it]

noun

1. a small flower; floret.

floweret

/ ˈflaʊərɪt /

noun

1. another name for floret

Word History and Origins

Origin of floweret¹

1350–1400; Middle English, variant of floret

Example Sentences

“Maybe,” she answered, playing with the tiny pink flowerets at the base of her collar.

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Amid the jungles of the East, Where gloomiest forms of sin are rife, Like flowerets in a desert drear, Her treasured ones had sprung to life.

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By this time all the tiny yellow flowerets which make up the yellow cushion have bloomed.

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"Some flowerets of Eden we still inherit Though the trail of the serpent is over them all."

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The glance of the new-blown rose is bright As the gleaming of stars on a summer's night, Like a bride for the altar the garden arraying, And love in a thousand flowerets playing.

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Related Words

• blossom 
• herb 
• perennial 
• vine