ray floret

English Thesaurus

1. small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	bloom, blossom, flower,
definition	:	reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts (noun.plant)

part meronym	:	flower head,
definition	:	a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae (noun.plant)