Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One of the often brightly colored parts of a flower immediately surrounding the reproductive organs; a division of the corolla.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, a corollaleaf; one of the individual parts of a corolla in which they are distinct.
- n. In zoology, a petaloid ambulacrum, as that of a spatangoid or clypeastroid sea-urchin. See cuts under ambulacrum and petalostichous.
Wiktionary
- n. botany one of the component parts of the corolla of a flower, when this consists of separate parts, that is it is not fused. Petals are often brightly colored.
- n. Term of endearment.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See corolla, and
Illust. of flower. - n. (Zoöl.) One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini.
WordNet 3.0
- n. part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek πέταλον (petalon). (Wiktionary)
- New Latin petalum, from Greek petalon, leaf. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Also I have accepted the term petal -- but never the word lip -- as applied to flowers.”
“The first petal is aligned with Mecca, to the Southwest of the project site.”
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“Moving clockwise at the top of the ZPO Tower, the second petal is directed toward the old town of Deira, a neighborhood of traditional souks, mosques, old fortress walls and wind towers.”
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“Like with the Flower one petal is a dragonfly wing, what is the other image in the smoke?”
“And yet, he makes us think that an artichoke petal is a person, and imbues that person with so much expression, simply by means of mechanical movement.”
“He took a silk rose with the American flag screen printed on each petal from a wreath on the grave.”
“The centre of the outer line of each petal is drawn out at the edge like the tails on the under wings of the Luna moth.”
“Each large outer petal is curved and cup-shaped, yet each has its finishing point which makes the blossom starry, and these eight inner”
“But this is not strictly correct; for instance, suppose a petal, which is very generally merely the sheath of”
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“She bent her cheek above the blossom, and whether the cheek or the petal were the redder, who should say?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘petal’.
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
*array, collecti...naked bud, leaf blade, brochidodromous, serrate, cork cambium, rhizomatous, flower stalk, deciduous sepal, petal, whorl, nectar gland, stamen and 1348 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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XX names
girls names
maxine, india, ivy, mabel, petal, beryl, dorothy, elena, nura, salma, teresa, viola and 3 more...
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Anatomy of plants and animals
A collection of anatomical names for parts of humans, animals, plants, and whatever anyone else can recall.
anther, stamen, pistil, filament, style, stigma, calyx, petal, sepal, peduncle, carpel, leaf and 22 more...
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beautiful words
fragile, ebony, etheral, dulcet, lovely, deflowered, rose, rosary, epiphany, lullaby, evanescent, petal and 4 more...
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delicate girl names
anne, violet, juliet, daisy, ebony, april, alice, iris, isis, ivy, bryony, fleur and 10 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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spread out, spacious words of spe
words pertaining to the root spe- (hope) with some allegorical liberties.
paten, pan, pass, patent, petal, expand, repand, passacaglia, passe, paseo, paella, spawn and 150 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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NakedFringe's Words
masticate, chamber, orchid, mandolin, yellow, pomegranate, conundrum, paradox, gyrate, calamitous, opalescent, cacophony and 533 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (P)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
pagan, page, pageant, pageboy, pagoda, paisley, paladin, palfrey, paling, pampas grass, pan, panoply and 194 more...
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precious
coin, waiflike, zoo, captain, difference, diet, automagical, olive, noanoa, dusk, cookie, monday and 221 more...
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