floscule

English

Etymology

From Latin flōsculus, diminutive of flōs (“flower, blossom”). Compare French floscule.

Noun

floscule (plural floscules)

1. (botany, obsolete) A floret.

Derived terms

• floscular
• flosculous

 

References

• “floscule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Noun

flōscule

1. vocative singular of flōsculus

Adverb

flōsculē (derived from flōsculus)

1. bloomingly, in a blooming manner

References

• “floscule”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• floscule in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• floscule in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.