Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having petals: generally used in composition: as, many-petaled; six-petaled.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Having petals; ; -- opposed to apetalous, and much used in compounds

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  • adjective botany Having or with petals.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of flowers) having petals

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Examples

  • The copper jacket "petaled" and folded back at the canellure.

    Buffalo with a .45-70 2009

  • The copper jacket "petaled" and folded back at the canellure.

    Buffalo with a .45-70 2009

  • Its chateau, overlooking the vine-flanked valley, and its perched, rose-petaled village, were once the residence and the stomping grounds of Madame de Sévigné, who wrote prolifically to her fille.

    tourism 2010

  • Its chateau, overlooking the vine-flanked valley, and its perched, rose-petaled village, were once the residence and the stomping grounds of Madame de Sévigné, who wrote prolifically to her fille.

    Travel 2010

  • The Emperor's palace was a tiered tower of scaffolding covered with tubing and construction materials, and the costumes looked deliberately bizarre: the Drummer (Jamie Van Eyck) had a tiny drum with enormous drumsticks; the magenta-haired Soldier Girl (Kathryn Skemp), who falls in love with the Soldier (Julius Ahn) after the two meet on the battlefield and are unable to kill each other, sported a petaled camouflage dirndl held up by crossed bandoliers.

    Writing Death's Gentle Aria in the Face of Despair 2011

  • Its chateau, overlooking the vine-flanked valley, and its perched, rose-petaled village, were once the residence and the stomping grounds of Madame de Sévigné, who wrote prolifically to her fille.

    choper - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Its chateau, overlooking the vine-flanked valley, and its perched, rose-petaled village, were once the residence and the stomping grounds of Madame de Sévigné, who wrote prolifically to her fille.

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

  • Its chateau, overlooking the vine-flanked valley, and its perched, rose-petaled village, were once the residence and the stomping grounds of Madame de Sévigné, who wrote prolifically to her fille.

    French Destinations 2010

  • Its chateau, overlooking the vine-flanked valley, and its perched, rose-petaled village, were once the residence and the stomping grounds of Madame de Sévigné, who wrote prolifically to her fille.

    French history 2010

  • Kristi, loved today's sweet story and equally lovely photo of this fairy tale, rose-petaled village.

    choper - French Word-A-Day 2010

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