petalody
noun
a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
petalodic
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a word derived from
petalody.
Example Sentences
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Occasionally it happens that an outer series of stamens is abortive, or wholly suppressed, while the inner row becomes petalodic; this was the case in some flowers of Lilium auratum lately exhibited by Messrs. Veitch.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
In Lonicera Periclymenum a second whorl of stamens more or less petalodic sometimes occurs.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
