Floret

noun

1. A small or reduced flower, especially one in a spikelet of a grass or sedge or in a flower head of a plant of the composite family.
2. Any of the tight, branched clusters of flower buds that together form a head of cauliflower or broccoli.
3. A small flower in a cluster or in a compact inflorescence, as in the so-called compound flower of the Compositæ, or in the spikelet of grasses.
4. A fencing-sword with a button on the point; a foil.
5. In silk-manuf., a yarn or floss spun from the first and purest of the waste, and of higher quality than the noil yarn.