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Definition of Petals
1. petal [n] - See also: petal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petals
Literary usage of Petals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"i except that the sepals and petals are narrow and undulate and the labellum does
... Bracts, peduncles and labellum light rose: sepals and petals oblong, ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"petals sometimes wanting. Stamens mostly hypogynous around an annular disk, ...
petals commonly with an appendage (crown) on the base of the blade within, ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"petals 5-oo. Stamens 5-oo ; anthers erect, the connective continuous with the
filament. Carpels 3-oo , distinct, united, or immersed in the receptacle. ..."
4. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"(5) 5 Stamens opposite to the petals and of the same number, (y) 5 Stamens
alternate -with the petals or of a different number, (в) 6 Leaves opposite on the ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Foliage very similar to that of the preceding species: peduncles stout, bearing
several large fls.: sepals oblong, olive-preen, spotted with red; petals ..."
6. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"The same flower closed ; one of the petals besmeared with pollen it laid upon
the stigma ... One of the two inner petals ; the middle lobe is coated with ..."
7. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Smooth or nearly so ; stems forking, prostrate ; leaves ovate, acute, all on
slender petioles, the lower ones often cordate ; petals twice as long aa the ..."
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