How To Use Floret In A Sentence

Similarly, in freesia florets the increase in perianth sugars was more than 10 times higher than the decrease in starch content.
Add the romanesco, squashing some of the bigger florets. Times, Sunday Times
Croci Regis Vegetabilium enucleatio continens Illius etymologiam, differencias, tempus quo viret et floret, culturam, collectionem, usum mechanicum, Pharmaceuticum, Chemico medicum, omnibus pene humani corporis partibus destinatum additis diversis observationibus et questionibus Crocum concernentibus ad normam et formam S. R. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
However, when you stop eating ketchup with your eggs and start serving an occasional egg (or cauliflower floret) beside your pool of ketchup, it becomes more of a problem. Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Ketchup, the Best Condiment (RECIPE)
Divide the cauliflower into florets and wash them thoroughly.

Pop the cauliflower florets into a roasting tin, drizzle with the oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Times, Sunday Times
Blue flowers will appear in acid conditions, pink inner florets in neutral to alkaline soil. Times, Sunday Times
Add the cauliflower florets and cook for four minutes until just tender, then drain. Times, Sunday Times
Cut the cauliflower into small florets and add to the shallots along with the stock. Times, Sunday Times
The diminutive florets on its flat disk are so shallow that lepidopterous and hymenopterous insects, with their long proboses, stand no chance of getting a meal. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Zabíbah is a preparation of hemp florets, opium and honey, much affected by the lower orders, whence the proverb: Temper thy sorrow with Zabibah. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The pauciflorous capitulum consists of outer female florets with short ligules, inner hermaphrodite florets without a pappus, and five outer involucral bracts, up to 2 cm long, possessing long-stalked glandular hairs.
In an oven dish, place the cauliflower florets, pour on top the cheesy mushroom sauce. Times, Sunday Times
It was the seasonal vegetables which disappointed; cauliflower florets, mange tout and carrots, all looking a little anaemic and with no discernible taste at all.
Divide the broccoli head into florets. Times, Sunday Times
It was served with a selection of silver-skin cocktail onions and cauliflower florets which had been pickled in vinegar so astringent it made my tongue shrivel and my teeth feel funny.
The fertility of all florets on panicles on which florets started to open on the first day of treatment and finished opening before the last day of treatment was examined at maturity.
Cut the broccoli into bite-size florets and chop the stalk. Times, Sunday Times
The latter are longer than the former, and where they are found, the ftems of the amenta are confiderably larger than the reft; yet the florets, which appear on the furface of thefe excrefcences, are not to appearance afFedted by them. A journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787;
The supposed flowers are the sculpturings on the scales of the ichthyolite; and, true to the analogy of the diker, on at least a first glance, they may be held to resemble the rather equivocal florets of a cheap wall-paper, or of an ornamental tile. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Subsequent growth determines the fraction of the potential florets that develop into flowers, and eventually to fruits and seeds.
We get purple and yellow cauliflower florets, plus yellow carrots. The Sun
The porcelain handles, which curve to enclose florets, are gilded to imitate gilt bronze.
Divide the broccoli into florets and wash them thoroughly.
The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sittingroom, -- these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion. Essays: Second Series (1844)
The florets touched each other at their tips, creating flattened sides and triangular openings between them.
Early stages of floret development are similar in the ear and tassel: each floret is enclosed in a lemma and palea and all florets produce two lodicules, three stamens, and a gynoecium.
Matched brass florets mark the corners of the three leather volumes that contain them, and delicate brass chains fasten their bindings.
Juice the broccoli florets and add this juice to the blender as well. Times, Sunday Times
The lemma is inserted on the rachilla (the spikelet axis) and, together with the palea, encloses the floret.
A few minutes before the potatoes are done, add the florets and leaves. Times, Sunday Times
Ray florets are much larger, with an 8-12 mm long, yellow, three-lobed, strap-shaped ligule surmounting a short corolla tube.
Divide the broccoli into florets and wash them thoroughly.
Juice the broccoli florets and add this juice to the blender as well. Times, Sunday Times
Cut into small florets and set aside. Times, Sunday Times
As larvae feed, they spin silken threads, trapping the dying florets and their frass, giving the sunflower head a trashy appearance.
Broccoli stalks are puréed with butter to make a silky sauce for broccoli florets and pasta in a dish that has become one of my favorites.
For the piece de résistance, set all within a naturalized sea of camassia bulbs with their tall greenish spires and soft blue florets that bloom for weeks on end in late spring.
Balanced on a log suspended over a glacial pothole, she is searching the foot-deep water for endangered howellia and their delicate white florets no bigger than her baby finger.
On the other hand, were the ligulate florets to be all replaced by tubular ones, the term peloria would be more strictly applicable. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The florets incurve or reflex in a regular manner and fully conceal the center.
Cut the cauliflower into small florets and peel and dice the carrots.
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The pistil consists of a stigma supported on the style; but in some Compositae, the male florets, which of course cannot be fecundated, have a pistil, which is in a rudimentary state, for it is not crowned with a stigma; but the style remains well developed, and is clothed with hairs as in other compositae, for the purpose of brushing the pollen out of the surrounding anthers. On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 13 (historical)
The pistil consists of a stigma supported on a style; but in some Compositae, the male florets, which of course cannot be fecundated, have a rudimentary pistil, for it is not crowned with a stigma; but the style remains well developed and is clothed in the usual manner with hairs, which serve to brush the pollen out of the surrounding and conjoined anthers. Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb
Cut the head into bite-size florets. Times, Sunday Times
These guys did not eat pasta salads and florets of broccoli. Times, Sunday Times
Boil for 2 minutes then add the florets. Times, Sunday Times
When the blowflies enter the flower, slanted spines prevent exit, and the flies are trapped overnight, spreading their pollen to the mature female florets inside the flower.
The highest relative concentration of isobutylamide in all species was in seed coats followed by roots; it was not found in ligulate florets and endosperm.
Ray florets are generally broad, flat or slightly incurved at their margins with blunt points.
Add the romanesco, squashing some of the bigger florets. Times, Sunday Times
It starts blooming in midsummer with huge panicles of showy, white florets surrounding smaller fertile flowers.
It seemed as if that crop of figures, like the innumerable florets of the whiteweed, now overspreading your paternal farm, were exhausting the last vitality from a shallow soil. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859
Add salt and the cauliflower florets. Times, Sunday Times
Disk florets have a tubular corolla with five small radially symmetrical lobes and five connate anthers forming a cylinder around the style.
Its common name, star cluster, refers to the myriad little florets that combine to form the main flower, in shades of pink, mauve, white and cerise.
The florets form various clockwise and counterclockwise spiral patterns, intertwined and crisscrossing but otherwise unmistakable to the eye.
These are compact little bundles, at first of a dull yellow colour, until presently the florets fall off and leave the white woolly pappus of the seeds collected together, somewhat resembling the hoary hairs of age. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
It has a yellow dome in the middle, and sometimes the white florets all drop and leave the dome standing alone on the stalk. Times, Sunday Times
Floret: I also should eat dear you are one.
But it is not quite right to call the tufts yellow: they are green, thickly powdered with the minute golden florets. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
The best way to choose fresh brocoli is to find the heads where the little florets are tightly woven together, and darkest green, almost blue, in color. Benefits of Brocoli
Add the florets and boil for a further 2 min. Times, Sunday Times
The fish is roasted with lemon and olive oil while its nest of cauliflower florets or halved beans and thick slices of new potato are boiled. Times, Sunday Times
The answer would be, as it seems to me, that important morphological characters, such as the position of the ovules and the relative position of the stamens to the ovarium (hypogynous, perigynous, etc.) are sometimes variable in the same species, as I incidentally mention when treating of the ray-florets in the Compositae and Umbelliferae; and I do not see how Nageli could maintain that differences in such characters prove an inherent tendency towards perfection. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
Divide the broccoli tops into florets.
For those who like steamed vegetables, it is best to cut the broccoli into florets and steam it either in the microwave oven or directly on the gas.
Compositæ, the male florets, which of course cannot be fecundated, have a pistil, which is in a rudimentary state, for it is not crowned with a stigma; but the style remains well developed, and is clothed with hairs as in other compositæ, for the purpose of brushing the pollen out of the surrounding anthers. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)
The number of florets on the flower stalk depends on the size of the bulb.
In ligulate heads all the florets are ligulate and 5-lobed and usually they are all bisexual.
_Ligulifloræ_, the florets are naturally all ligulate, so that the change above mentioned is not in itself a very grave one. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Figs (or, more properly, syconia) are hollow multiple receptacles lined with numerous male and female florets.
Similar results were presented in experiments where the sterilization of florets led to more grain setting and greater grain growth in the untreated spikelets.
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The next day, the male florets mature, the flies pick up more pollen, the spines wither, and the flies are released to spread their pollen to other nefarious arums.
Both dishes came with broccoli florets, peas, carrots and new potatoes all cooked to perfection, although the potatoes would have been tastier if a little butter had been melted over them.
Each flower head is 12-25 mm in diameter and consists of 50-60 bisexual disk florets surrounded by 12-15 pistillate ray florets.
Each floret is enclosed in a lemma and palea and all florets produce two lodicules, three stamens, and a gynoecium.
Tagetes, _Sud Buruk_, is a curious genus, on account of its simple tubular involucrum, very entire and pappus florets, conduplicate in aestivation, all florets faeminine are ligulate; are the folded up ones representations of the males? Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Cut the broccoli into florets and steam for five minutes until just tender. Times, Sunday Times
The accompanying vegetables were good too; finely-sliced gratin potatoes in a light cheese sauce, delicious boiled new potatoes in their skins, deep-fried cauliflower florets in batter, broccoli and carrots.
It is studded with pale golden clusters of tiny florets in the axils of lance-shaped, feather-veined leaves for nearly its entire length. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
Tagetes, _Sud Buruk_, is a curious genus, on account of its simple tubular involucrum, very entire and pappus florets, conduplicate in aestivation, all florets faeminine are ligulate; are the folded up ones representations of the males? Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Top with rapini or broccoli florets and red onion. Canada.com
Each of these flower stalks has fewer florets, but the plant as a whole is quite lovely.
Two leafy organs protect the floret of grasses, the lemma, and the palea, and both are considered to represent reduced vegetative leaves.
Cut the cauliflower into small florets. Times, Sunday Times
I steam purple sprouting for 4 minutes, white for 3 and the thicker-stemmed calabrese broccoli for about 5, depending on the size of the florets. Nigel Slater's white sprouting
Simply cut the florets off the stems of the plant and blanch them for a couple of minutes in boiling water.
We serve broccoli stems and florets steamed and tossed with a vinaigrette salad dressing just as you would a salad.
Arrange the cauliflower florets in a lightly buttered baking dish. Times, Sunday Times
The sugar content and dry weight of opening freesia florets was dramatically reduced when stems were reduced in length, indicating that the stem was a major source of carbohydrate.
Christianissimi eximiam pietatem imitante filio, Diuo Friderico secundo rege nostro sanctissimo, Anno 1588. ad coelestem patriam euocato, aucta et promota: quæ etiam hodiè, clementissimi regis et principis nostri, Christiani 4. fauore et nutu viget floretque: in qua iuuentus nostræ Insulæ, artium dicendi et sacræ Theologiæ rudimentis imbuta, ad scientiam et veram pietatem formatur, vt hinc ministri Ecclesiarum petantur. A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
In the basal part of the floret, the mRNA label was very strong in the two distinctive bracts, lemma and palea, as well as in the base of the two lodicules and the pistil complex.
Place over the veg topped with broccoli florets. Times, Sunday Times
Each panicle was individually labelled with its flowering date, defined as the day on which pollen had been released in approximately two-thirds of the florets composing the panicle.
Separate a few pretty florets for use in garnishing the soup dishes.
Place the cauliflower florets in a food processor and blitz it on the pulse setting until it resembles something like couscous. Times, Sunday Times
The flowers in July and August are a mysterious blue surrounded by white florets. Times, Sunday Times
I hope you love this pasta dish -- it's quick, delicious and earth-friendly, using every bit of the cauliflower, no froufrou florets, no waste. Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: A New Year's Resolution of Biblical Proportions
Lacecaps look quite different to their mophead relatives with flatter flowers made up of an outer ring of large sterile florets surrounding a cluster of tiny fertile flowers.
Cut the seedheads when the majority of seeds have formed - about 2-to-3 weeks after the blossoming starts - even though some tiny florets may still be blooming.
Other options for vegetarians were spinach and parsley croquets or fried cauliflower florets with cheese sauce.
Matched brass florets mark the corners of the three leather volumes that contain them, and delicate brass chains fasten their bindings.
The plants, ranging from two to six feet in height, have sturdy sword-shaped leaves and produce flower spikes with trumpet-shaped florets borne in double rows.
To get the most enjoyment from flower spikes, pick when the first florets are beginning to open.
On the day before florets opened, the third florets from the top of the first branches were fixed in FAA after removing the lemmas.
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Distinguishing characteristics are fully double, involute florets that are narrow and pointed.
Divide the cauliflower into florets and wash them thoroughly.
In an oven dish, place the cauliflower florets, pour on top the cheesy mushroom sauce. Times, Sunday Times
The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains, the waving rye-field, the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to windharps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room, these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion. XIV. Essays. Nature. 1844
In what are erroneously called double flowers in this order, _e. g._ in the Chrysanthemum, Dahlia, &c. &c., the florets are all ligulate. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Remove any leaves from the cauliflower and divide into small florets each with a bit of stalk. Times, Sunday Times
The outermost two rows of florets on the flower head opened and anthesed on the same day.
Behind that is broccoli calabrese, which is going to need transplanting soon, I suspect (that, or I'll be snipping very small florets), and to the left is, uh ... not sure. Insert amusing Twitter-related title here.
Curious transformation in Carthamus was observed, either affecting the involucrum alone, when those branches that would have become flowers become clavate, covered with very dense aristate leaves, or affecting the florets which become more or less converted in the branches. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Cut the cauliflower into slim bite-size florets with stalks. Times, Sunday Times
The flowers, as before hinted, are thistle-shaped; the pericline or knob just under the florets is cone-shaped, covered with evenly set and pointed scales, green, edged with a brown margin, set round with short bristle-like teeth. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
Remove the floret of the broccoli and used only the stalk part, peal the outer part and slice thin. Nena Niessen: The Wonders of Leeks
These are often called the flosculous florets or disk-florets. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
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Boil a pan of orecchiette (little ears, which collect the little bits of the sauce) or cappellini (angel hair pasta, which wraps itself around the florets) and cook the broccoli until just tender.
We used to help my grandmother gather the flowers, remove the green involucre from beneath the flowerhead and separate the rays, or florets.
MARIA V said ... we have four caulis int he garden, which I am finally looking after now that you know who is you know where and will be out of action for a while ... i'm thinking of trying cauliflower florets deep-fried in a spicy batter. Recipes: Dukkah and Roast Cauliflower with Dukkah
Scoop from the pan and add florets. Times, Sunday Times
Make a bean and veggie saut é using carrots, onions, garlic and broccoli florets in olive oil.
Both dishes came with fresh, seasonal vegetables including roast and boiled potatoes, cauliflower florets and carrots.
As larvae feed, they spin silken threads, trapping the dying florets and their frass, giving the sunflower head a trashy appearance.
Heads on discoid plants have an extra whorl of disc florets instead of ray florets.
The peloton entered Jean de Florette country to the highpitched chattering of cicadas, with the domestiques making constant visits to their team cars to refill their riders ' bidons.
They become yellow about the time they are extruded from the florets at flowering and then turn white.
Snapdragons , calceolaria and larkspur will drop their floret rapidly.
Inner florets remain incurved at the early stage concealing the disc florets of the bloom.
The development of small vegetative propagules with bulbils within the florets (inflorescence proliferation) is also common.
On the other hand, were the ligulate florets to be all replaced by tubular ones, the term peloria would be more strictly applicable. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Panicum has two unequal glumes, the lower very small; the lower florets also, are usually staminiferous. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
I thought I'd fill up on our side orders of the broccoli florets with almond butter and purée of carrots and celery.
Broccoli florets (I use frozen and add near to the end) ½ pineapple, chopped (or one can, stored in juice, is fine too) Archive 2008-04-01
For the piece de résistance, set all within a naturalized sea of camassia bulbs with their tall greenish spires and soft blue florets that bloom for weeks on end in late spring.
_Compositæ_ there is, as is well known, a distinction between the florets of the "disc" and those of the "ray," the latter being ligulate, the former tubular. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The number of rings of kernels from the base to the tip of the ear was counted and the apical ear region was defined as the fifth two nodal rings of fertilized florets, counting basipetally from the apex.
Curious transformation in Carthamus was observed, either affecting the involucrum alone, when those branches that would have become flowers become clavate, covered with very dense aristate leaves, or affecting the florets which become more or less converted in the branches. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Add broccoli florets and cook until tender. Times, Sunday Times
Raise the heat to high, pour in the wine and cook 1 minute, then reduce the heat to simmer, cover the pan and cook until a knife is easily inserted into the stem end of a floret. Mary Ann Esposito: Ten Thanksgiving Sides
The outermost part is a tough scab-like purple scale, but within is a tumid floret of a highly complex design. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
Capitula with all florets of one sexual state, either male, female or hermaphrodite and heterogamous when florets of more than one sexual state are present.
A ten-foot row of broccoli will give you enough florets to feed a family of four with plenty left over to freeze.
The base could be covered with puréed spinach and topped with florets of broccoli and cauliflower, still with cheese.
Think of how a broccoli floret has the same shape and form as an entire head of broccoli. The Next Ten Minutes
Early stages of floret development are similar in the ear and tassel: each floret is enclosed in a lemma and palea and all florets produce two lodicules, three stamens, and a gynoecium.
Add small broccoli florets and partly cover so that they can fry and steam until they are tender. Times, Sunday Times
Cut the cauliflower into small florets and add to the shallots along with the stock. Times, Sunday Times
Pergratum fuit mihi collegisque meis, quod ex litteris tuis nuperrime allatis didicimus, Universitatem, quæ in Virginia floret, annum ab origine sua centesimum feliciter exactum propediem ineunte mense Iunio per quattuor dies solemniter celebraturam. The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921
We can gain a grasp of this wonder of structure from a seed of groundsel or a sparrow's feather picked up in the street; for a spray of plumy meadowsweet or one dandelion floret is a poem in itself, and the sand particle is complex, curiously fashioned and polished. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
Spikes were threshed and florets (hereafter called seeds) separated from chaff by sieving and forced-air separation.
These guys did not eat pasta salads and florets of broccoli. Times, Sunday Times
The outermost part is a tough scab-like purple scale, but within is a tumid floret of a highly complex design. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
Florets were removed from the middle third of the main rachis on fully emerged tassels prior to anther exsertion.
The porcelain handles, which curve to enclose florets, are gilded to imitate gilt bronze.
The florets are enclosed by other specialized bracts (the lemma and palea). Grasses
Divide the broccoli head into florets. Times, Sunday Times
• An article about a fatal shooting in rural France, stemming from arguments over rights to spring water, drew comparisons with the 1986 film of Marcel Pagnol's book Jean de Florette. Corrections and clarifications
The rocks themselves are streaked with gleaming mineral secretions; in the cracks between them grow spiky aloes with bright red florets.

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