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Definition of Polypetalous
1. Adjective. Having a corolla composed of many separated or distinct petals.
Definition of Polypetalous
1. a. Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant.
Definition of Polypetalous
1. Adjective. (botany) having a corolla composed of distinct, separable petals ¹
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Definition of Polypetalous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Polypetalous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Polypetalous
Literary usage of Polypetalous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Class Book of Botany: Being an Introduction to the Study of the Vegetable by John Hutton Balfour (1852)
"527), in which the corolla is polypetalous, the petals in their early state are
united together by their apices, and afterwards separate and fall off. ..."
2. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1890)
"(Several genera or species belonging to polypetalous Orders are ... Herbs or some
woody plants, with a colorless and usually acrid juice, polypetalous, ..."
3. The American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure, Life by Alphonso Wood (1875)
"The innumerable forms of the perianth, whether calyx or corolla, or both, are
first to be distinguished as polypetalous or ..."
4. A History of the Vegetable Kingdom: Embracing the Physiology of Plants, with by William Rhind (1857)
"Corolla polypetalous, regular, composed of four petals, placed crosswise. ...
Flowers with the corolla generally polypetalous, composed of six or only three ..."
5. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"... DIVISION L—polypetalous EXOGENOUS PLANTS. Flowers with both calyx and corolla,
the latter absent in only a few genera and species. ..."
6. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"The innumerable forms of the perianth, whether calyx or corolla, or both, are
first to be distinguished as polypetalous or ..."
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