Floret :: Floret (n.) A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion..

Floret :: Floret (n.) A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing.

Lorette :: Lorette (n.) In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided..

Lorettine :: Lorettine (n.) One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States..

Phloretic :: Phloretic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, an organic acid obtained by the decomposition of phloretin..

Phloretin :: Phloretin (n.) A bitter white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phlorizin, and formerly used to some extent as a substitute for quinine..

Semifloret :: Semifloret (n.) See Semifloscule.

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