PETAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does petal mean? 

• PETAL (noun)
  The noun PETAL has 1 sense:

1. part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored

  Familiarity information: PETAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PETAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

flower petal; petal

Hypernyms ("petal" is a kind of...):

floral leaf (a modified leaf that is part of a flower)

Holonyms ("petal" is a part of...):

corolla ((botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth)

Derivation:

petalous ((of flowers) having petals)

 Context examples 

The reproductive structure of a tree or other plant, consisting of at least one pistil or stamen, and often including petals and sepals.

(Flower, Food and Drug Administration)

Like a rose-petal, he thought; cool and soft as a snowflake.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The flowers are yellow-white, 2.5-4 cm in diameter, with 7 to 8 petals.

(Camellia sinensis, NCI Thesaurus)

The petals collectively are called the corolla.

(Petal, Food and Drug Administration)

The petals collectively; usually the conspicuously colored flower whorl.

(Corolla, Food and Drug Administration)

The oil extracted from the petals of Chamaemelum nobile.

(Chamaemelum nobile Flower Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The soft robots could also be used as cantilevers or folded into "flowers" with petals that bend in different directions.

(Technique uses magnets, light to control and reconfigure soft robots, National Science Foundation)

The regular flowers have five short, subequal, entire, imbricate, basally connate sepals, and five persistent-withering yellow petals.

(Hypericum perforatum, NCI Thesaurus)

There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom—apple, plum, pear, cherry; and as we drove by I could see the green grass under the trees spangled with the fallen petals.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Tamás and University of Szeged doctoral student Eszter Boldog dubbed these new cells rosehip neurons — to them, the dense bundle each brain cell's axon forms around the cell's center looks just like a rose after it has shed its petals, he said.

(Mysterious New Type of Human Brain Cell Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)