Petaloid

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A petaloid structure in a flower.

    "Comparative transcriptomic studies among petal, stamen petaloid and stamen through RNA-seq were conducted, which identified several candidate genes involved in stamen petaloid, especially some MADS-box genes."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling the petal of a flower.

    "From whence he concludes, that no apetalous can be a perfect Flower, since the only Fence of a Flower consists in its being petaloid."

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling a flower petal wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
petaliformpetaliformpetaloidal

Example

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"From whence he concludes, that no apetalous can be a perfect Flower, since the only Fence of a Flower consists in its being petaloid."

Etymology

From petal + -oid.

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