semi-ˈfloret Bot.
[semi- 7 c.]
A floret having a ligulate corolla, as in the dandelion.
| 1731 Bailey (ed. 2), Semi-floret (with Florists), an half⁓flourish, is tubulous at the beginning like a Floret, and afterwards expanded in the form of a tongue. 1785 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. vi. 68 You have observed two sorts of florets in the Daisy: the yellow ones, which occupy the middle..of the flower, and the little white tongues..which surround them... We shall leave to the first the name of Florets, and to distinguish the second we shall call them Semi-florets. |
So
semi-ˈfloscule, in Latin form
-ˈflosculus; hence
semi-ˈfloscular,
-ˈflosculose,
-ˈflosculous adjs., having semi-florets (
cf. ligulate a. 1).
| 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Scorzonera, The flower is of the *semifloscular kind. |
| 1727 P. Blair Pharmaco-Bot. v. 210 All the *Semifloscles or half Flourishes have a Capillamentum and Vagina. Ibid. 227 The yellow radiated large Flowers..have their Corona, consisting of two or three Rows of very small Semifloscules. |
| 1720 ― Bot. Ess. i. 30 Each of these Flosculi, and *Semiflosculi, are situated upon the top of an Embryo seminis. |
| 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xx. (1776) 232 The *Semiflosculose Flowers of Tournefort. 1866 Treas. Bot., Semiflosculose, having the corolla split and turned to one side, as in the ligule of composites. |
| 1720 P. Blair Bot. Ess. iii. 128 *Semiflosculous Flowers. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) III. 422/2 One naked seed, and compound flowers semiflosculous. |