Small flowers or individual blooms that make up a larger cluster or head, like the tiny florets in a broccoli crown.
From Old French 'flour' (flower) + diminutive suffix '-et', eventually becoming English 'floweret.' The term evolved to describe the constituent parts of composite flowers.
Botanists use 'florets' to describe flowers that aren't actually single flowers—a sunflower head contains hundreds of florets that look like one giant bloom, which is nature's way of making an even bigger attraction for pollinators!
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