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.