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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.

 

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