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Definition of Petaloid
1. Adjective. Resembling a flower petal.
Definition of Petaloid
1. a. Petaline.
Definition of Petaloid
1. Adjective. (botany) Resembling the petal of a flower ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Petaloid
1. resembling a petal [adj] - See also: petal
Medical Definition of Petaloid
1. Like a petal, soft in texture and coloured conspicuously. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petaloid
Literary usage of Petaloid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1883)
"SULTANA: falls very rich purple-crimson, beard primrose, the claw on each side
reticulated purple and white; standards and petaloid stigmas lavender. ..."
2. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"In these flowers the petals were present as usual, but the stamens were more or
less petaloid, the filaments were unchanged, but the anthers existed in the ..."
3. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"colored or petaloid. Kay-flowers none. Disk-flowers numerous, all alike.
Corolla with narrow tube, abruptly dilated throat, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"... but curiosity stamens petaloid, unless the proposition is ad Exact observation,
however, shows that in snch are formed npon a common plan, ..."
5. The Universe: Or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little by Félix-Archimède Pouchet (1884)
"petaloid Perianth of tho White Lily—Lilium candidum (Linn«ua). only a result of
the metamorphosis of a humble leaf. ..."
6. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Sepals linear-oblong, green at the back. Petals oblong, obtuse, with no glandular
pore. Outer filaments petaloid. Fruit globose ; stigmatic rays-20. ..."
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