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  • adjective (of flowers) having five petals

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Examples

  • The toto, a small five-petalled white flower that grows in the rainy season, is worked into embroidered patterns with different petals, according to the taste of the individual artist.

    Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part One 2009

  • The toto, a small five-petalled white flower that grows in the rainy season, is worked into embroidered patterns with different petals, according to the taste of the individual artist.

    Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part One 2009

  • The toto, a small five-petalled white flower that grows in the rainy season, is worked into embroidered patterns with different petals, according to the taste of the individual artist.

    Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part One 2009

  • The simpler the rose, in its pentangle, five-petalled form, the more complex its spirit.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

  • The toto, a small five-petalled white flower that grows in the rainy season, is worked into embroidered patterns with different petals, according to the taste of the individual artist.

    Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part One 2009

  • The moment I saw the mourning brooch, matte black, a five-petalled flower (Forget-me-not?), I tried to skip past it.

    The Child Who Loved Emily Dickinson Bernard Glassman 2010

  • The stalk bears sturdy, bright yellow, five-petalled flowers, closely packed along the upper part of the stem.

    The insects come for our intrepid blogger and his husband. Will 2009

  • The Iwasaki crest is a stylized five-petalled bellflower.

    Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

  • The Iwasaki crest is a stylized five-petalled bellflower.

    Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002

  • At the top of the tall stems are large clusters of small five-petalled flowers, creamy-white.

    Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke

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