Empetalled

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Covered with petals or petal-like objects. not-comparable

    "Innocent billows on the strand Leave a crystal over sand, Whose thin ebbing soon is crossed Of a crystal foam-enmossed, Variegating silvergrey Shell-empetalled sand in play:"

  2. 2
    Resembling petals. (of a large number of similar objects) not-comparable

    "In its beauty and design that vision of the soaring stands, the pattern of forty thousand empetalled faces, the velvet and unalterable geometry of the playing field, and the small lean figures of the players, set there, lonely, tense and waiting in their places, bright, desperate solitary atoms encircled by that huge wall of nameless faces, is incredible."

Example

More examples

"Innocent billows on the strand Leave a crystal over sand, Whose thin ebbing soon is crossed Of a crystal foam-enmossed, Variegating silvergrey Shell-empetalled sand in play:"

Etymology

From em- + petal + -ed.

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