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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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
As it means "many petalled," it is not the best possible name, but it is the old one and in almost universal use.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Perhaps it was the unexpectedness of it, perhaps it was sheer amazement that left her hand lying idly relaxed like a white petalled blossom in his.
From The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
"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
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
