Word Meanings - PETALINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, 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.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ATTACH
  tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
• 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.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• PETALOID
  Petaline.
• PETALUM
  A petal.
• PETALINE
  Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal.
• ATTACHABLE
  Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.
• ATTACHE
  One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• 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.
• 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.
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
• 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.