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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.
  • REATTACHMENT
    The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
  • 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.

 

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