petal

The artichokes are done when the large outer petals can be easily pulled off.

The shopper bags continued the petal effect, made perhaps from extra material from a wedding dress covered in rosettes.

And to keep the sun out of her eyes, the Burberry girl will be wearing white framed, petal-shaped dark glasses next spring.

He only brushed a flower so lightly with his fingertips that he did not disturb as much as a petal.

The satirical Petal Paper found an audience—but more and more of them were out of state.

He lived in the small town of Petal, Mississippi, across the river from Hattiesburg.

Its shape is of a lotos bud, and the long fissures that plough a mountain side are now but delicate gold veining on a petal.

"Then I am quite sure you will remember," she laughed, and fell to picking a rose apart, petal by petal.

She took another bungling stitch in the petal of a white floss daisy.

Ariadne was the white and slender lily, slowly unfolding petal after petal in obedience to the law of its own inner growth.

That other night, after he had gone home, he had found a solitary pink petal clinging to his scarf-pin.