Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having petals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having petals; petaled: as, a petalous flower: opposed to apetalous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to
apetalous .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
petals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of flowers) having petals
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But the floral kingdom was not responsible for that swirl of petalous whiteness.
The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886
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