Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no petals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having no petals or corolla; pertaining to the Apetalœ.
- In the echinoids or seaurchins, having one of the five ambulacral rays more or less imperfectly developed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See
Illust. underanther ].
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having no
petals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of flowers) having no petals
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Examples
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Vascular plants found in Mt. Assiniboine park include American alpine smelowskia Smelowskia calycina, Raynold's sedge Carex raynoldsii, Cusick's Indian paintbrush Castilleja cusickii, stalked-pod locoweed Oxytropis podocarpa, sub-alpine grassland Saussurea nuda and apetalous campion Silene uralensis attenuata.
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= -- Deficiency of the entire corolla occurs in conjunction with similar reductions in other organs, or as an isolated phenomenon in the many apetalous varieties of plants recorded in books.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The highest apetalous plants contain camphors and oils; the highest of the monocotyledons contain a mucilage and oils; and the highest dicotyledons contain oils and special acids.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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No plants containing saponin have been found among apetalous groups.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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I desire now to call attention to chemical groups under the apetalous plants having simplicity of floral elements.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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Thus, certain species of _Helianthemum_ are apetalous in Lapland.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The following references apply some to apetalous and others to dimorphic flowers, but it must be remembered that the latter plants are not necessarily wanting in petals or stamens, &c., though the functional activity of the parts may be impaired:
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The starting-point of the class, however, and the position within it of apetalous families with frequently unisexual flowers, have provoked much discussion.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The flowers in this case were apetalous and imperfect.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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All these plants are grouped under three main divisions: apetalous, monocotyledonous, and dicotyledonous; and these main divisions are further subdivided.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
slumry commented on the word apetalous
A flower without petals is apetalous.
July 23, 2007