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Floscular definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLOS'CULAR,
FLOS'CULE, n. [L. flosculus.] In botany, a partial or lesser floret of an aggregate flower.
FLOS FERRI, n. [L. flower of iron.] A mineral, a variety of arragonite, called by Jameson, after Hauy, coralloidal arragonite. It occurs in little cylinders, sometimes diverging and ending in a point, and sometimes branched, like coral. Its structure is fibrous, and the surface, which is smooth, or garnished with little crystalline points, is often very white, with a silken luster. It takes this name from its being often found in cavities in veins of sparry iron.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (also flosculous) having florets or composite flowers. Etymology: L flosculus dimin. of flos flower

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Floscular Flos"cu*lar, a. (Bot.) Flosculous.