Head (botany)
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The term head has a technical meaning in botany: it refers to a special inflorescence.
A head, flower head or composite flower is a structure composed of numerous individual flowers, put so closely together that together they would appear to be a single flower. Such flower heads are a feature of the family Compositae aka Asteraceae.
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