Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having petals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, petal-bearing: often opposed to clistogene.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing petals.
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- adjective Bearing
petals .
Etymologies
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petal + -iferous
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Examples
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The rose is not lacking, but glows with the radiant beauty of its petaliferous sister; the columnar trunks of stony trees, covered with green, flossy mosses, are scattered about; and fresh fountains gush from the rocks, the white water as clearly distinguishable from the ultramarine as in the upper atmosphere. [
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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