Word Meanings - PETALODY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals.

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• FLORAL
  Containing, or belonging to, a flower; as, a floral bud; a floral leaf; floral characters. Martyn. Floral envelope , the calyx and corolla, one or the other of which may be wanting. (more info) 1. Pertaining to Flora, or to flowers; made of
• FLORALLY
  In a floral manner.
• VARIOUS
  1. Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors. So many and so various laws are given. Milton. A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild. Byron. 2. Changeable; uncertain; inconstant;
• VARIOUSLY
  In various or different ways.
• METAMORPHOSIS
  A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual
• THALAMIFLORAL; THALAMIFLOROUS
  Bearing the stamens directly on the receptacle; -- said of a subclass of polypetalous dicotyledonous plants in the system of De Candolle.
• DISCIFLORAL; DISCIFLOROUS
  Bearing the stamens on a discoid outgrowth of the receptacle; - - said of a subclass of plants. Cf. Calycifloral.
• TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
  Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
• CALYCIFLORAL; CALLYCIFLOROUS
  Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.
• OVARIOUS
  Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food. Thomson.
• LABIATIFLORAL; LABIATIFLORAL
  Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.
• HYPERMETAMORPHOSIS
  A kind of metamorphosis, in certain insects, in which the larva itself undergoes remarkable changes of form and structure during its growth.
• COROLLIFLORAL; COROLLIFLOROUS
  Having the stamens borne on the petals, and the latter free from the calyx. Compare Calycifloral and Thalamifloral. (more info) Etym: