Composite

A flower that is a member of the Sunflower Family.


The botanist’s term for a daisy, from the way the “flowers” are in fact made up of many small flowers.


Botanist’s term for any member of the large daisy family (Asteraceae or Compositae), characterized by their composite flowerheads often resembling a single flower, with a disc consisting of small, tightly packed disc florets, commonly surrounded by rays or ray florets, which have much longer petals fused into a strap-like form.


A substance used for white dental fillings for front teeth. It consists of minute crystals of various glasses or ceramics held together with a binder of synthetic resins of several kinds.


A material made of two (or more) parts that when linked exhibit different biological, chemical, or physical properties than either part alone.


A plant of the compositae or daisy family, with flowers made up of many small separate flowers, united in a single head, which looks like one flower.


 


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