petal
noun
one of the often colored segments of the corolla of a flower.
petalled
-
a word derived from
petal.
Example Sentences
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The first is divided diagonally into sunken squares, each containing a flower; and the others have lion masks in quatrefoils, with five petalled roses in the alternate spaces.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by G. H. (George Henry) Palmer
A wingèd death has smitten dumb thy bells, And poured them molten from thy tragic towers: Now are the windows dust that were thy flower Patterned like frost, petalled like asphodels.
From A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 by George Herbert Clarke
Wide petalled, burning red, their golden hearts open to sun and bee, they were the blossoms for the earth-woman.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
But the skipper only shook his petalled skull.
From The Devil's Asteroid by Manly Wade Wellman
"Why, this way," said Kate, leaning to straighten and arrange the delicate velvet petalled roses with her sure, work-abused fingers.
From A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter
