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.