Petal
['pet(ə)l] or ['pɛtl]
Definition
(noun.) part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored.
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Definition
(n.) One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower.
(n.) One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini.
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Definition
n. a flower-leaf: a corolla leaf.—adjs. Pet′aled Pet′aliform Pet′alous having petals or flower-leaves; Pet′aline pertaining to or resembling a petal: attached to a petal.—n. Pet′alism a method of ostracism practised in ancient Syracuse the name being written on an olive-leaf.—adj. Pet′aloid having the form of a petal—also Petaloi′deous.
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Examples
- They came forth at last in a little high table-land of snow, where stood the last peaks of snow like the heart petals of an open rose. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He found Mary in the garden gathering roses and sprinkling the petals on a sheet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When the colour is absent from only one of the two upper petals, the nectary is not quite aborted but is much shortened. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The petals in the imperfect flowers almost always consist of mere rudiments, and the pollen-grains are reduced in diameter. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In regard to plants, the petals are sometimes rudimentary, and sometimes well developed in the individuals of the same species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Another richer than I desires to wed thee, Therefore do I shed tears, as the rose sheds her crimson petals. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Why should the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, in each flower, though fitted for such distinct purposes, be all constructed on the same pattern? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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