Word Meanings - PETALUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A petal.
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- PETALOSTICHA
An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid. - PETALITE
A rare mineral, occurring crystallized and in cleavable masses, usually white, or nearly so, in color. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. - PETALIFEROUS
Bearing petals. - PETALOUS
Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to Ant: apetalous. - PETALIFORM
Having the form of a petal; petaloid; petal-shaped. - PETALISM
A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots. - PETALOIDEOUS
Having the whole or part of the perianth petaline. Petaloideous division, that division of endogenous plants in which the perianth is wholly or partly petaline, embracing the Liliaceæ, Orchidaceæ, Amaryllideæ, etc. - PETALOID
Petaline. - PETALUM
A petal. - PETALINE
Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal. - PETALODY
The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals. - PETALED
Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to Ant: apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three- petaled, etc. - PETAL
One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower. - MACROPETALOUS
Having long or large petals. - BIPETALOUS
Having two petals. - CATAPETALOUS
Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow. - EPIPETALOUS
Borne on the petals or corolla. - ANTIPETALOUS
Standing before a petal, as a stamen. - OLIGOPETALOUS
Having few petals. - TRIPETALOID
Having the form or appearance of three petals; appearing as if furnished with three petals. - APETALOUS
Having no petals, or flower leaves. . - OCTOPETALOUS
Having eight petals or flower leaves. - PENTAPETALOUS
Having five petals, or flower leaves. - HEXAPETALOUS
Having six petals. - CENTRIPETAL
1. Tending, or causing, to approach the center. 2. Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit. Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos. 3. Progressing - POLYPETALOUS
Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. Martyn.