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Word Meanings - PETALOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to Ant: apetalous.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • OPPOSABILITY
    The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
  • 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.
  • OPPOSITIONIST
    One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • PETALIFEROUS
    Bearing petals.
  • OPPOSITIVE
    Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
  • OPPOSELESS
    Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • PETALOUS
    Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to Ant: apetalous.
  • PETALIFORM
    Having the form of a petal; petaloid; petal-shaped.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
    Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • 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.
  • APETALOUS
    Having no petals, or flower leaves. .
  • MACROPETALOUS
    Having long or large petals.
  • BIPETALOUS
    Having two petals.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • CATAPETALOUS
    Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • EPIPETALOUS
    Borne on the petals or corolla.
  • ANTIPETALOUS
    Standing before a petal, as a stamen.
  • OLIGOPETALOUS
    Having few petals.

 

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