Word Meanings - PARAPETALOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.

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• GROWLER
  The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
• GROWL
  To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
• 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.
• GROWAN
  A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
• PETALOUS
  Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to Ant: apetalous.
• GROWER
  One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
• PETALIFORM
  Having the form of a petal; petaloid; petal-shaped.
• GROW
  1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs. 2. To increase in any way; to become larger and
• 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.
• GROWLINGLY
  In a growling manner.
• GROWTHEAD
  A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser.
• STAMENED
  Furnished with stamens.
• PETALOID
  Petaline.
• PETALUM
  A petal.
• GROWTH
  1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production;
• GROWTHFUL
  Having capacity of growth. J. Hamilton.
• PETALINE
  Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal.
• MACROPETALOUS
  Having long or large petals.
• UPGROW
  To grow up. Milton.
• FULL-GROWN
  Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• 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.
• INGROWTH
  A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
• OUTGROWTH
  That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
• INGROWING
  Growing or appearing to grow into some other substance. Ingrowing nail, one whose edges are becoming imbedded in the adjacent flesh.
• ANTIPETALOUS
  Standing before a petal, as a stamen.
• LIVER-GROWN
  Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.
• OLIGOPETALOUS
  Having few petals.