Petals

Word PETALS
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Definitions and meanings of "Petals"

What do we mean by petals?

One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.

Term of endearment.

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The word "petals" in example sentences

Debbie also included this useful bit of information, Another use for the petals is as a gentle bruise juice (healing the bruise, that is). ❋ Unknown (2009)

I've plucked off some of the rose petals from the flower Biri gave me last night. ❋ Jerine (2009)

The force of the downpour removed the petals from the poppies. ❋ The Nag (2009)

I'm sure Joe Biden will be showered with rose petals from the lefties. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the book, also paradoxically, while falling me in love with lush lyricism (just like everyone else), was actually what put me on the road towards a more stripped down prose ... because once Garcia-Marquez has rained petals from the sky to mourn the death of a patriarch, what more can I or anyone do? ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is true that I am a person who prefers, most of the time, to remain petals-closed. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A cross of marigold petals is formed on the floor so that as the spirit approaches the alter, he will step on the cross and expel his guilt. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A high wind caught up and scattered broadcast the petals from the Italian garden, as though that spot had served its only purpose. ❋ Stephen French Whitman (N/A)

They stand out against the curtain with symbolic gesture, stooping as if to gather up the wreaths, or swaying with long stiff branch as if to sweep the fallen petals from the floor. ❋ Hilda Doolittle (1921)

Flowers like the oxlip, with transparently thin petals, only faintly washed with colour, yet have a distinct and pervasive scent. ❋ Unknown (1917)

There are several varieties of these flowers; they are quite capricious as regards coloring and size, some being as large as lilies, others not half that size; many are pure white, others dark, others again are flushed with pale pink, or lilac, while one kind, with white petals, is marked about the heart with rich carmine tracery. ❋ Unknown (1887)

~~left a trail of rose petals from the front door, around the house to various notes I'd done in calligraphic text, eventually trailing to the bathroom, where there were candles and a bubble bath (and me) ... miss ya, sylvaine2001 ... ❋ Hazeleyedgal_25 (2002)

Mr. Obama also traveled to the spot where he had scattered his mother’s ashes after she died of ovarian cancer, and yesterday dropped petals from a lei into the water. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life comes to mind – the scene where he “fixes” ZuZu’s petals is one that just popped into my head thinking about this question. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The petals are a jaundiced yellow, netted with purple veins that coalesce in the violet throat where a flaccid bunch of anthers and a longer style rest. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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