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Meanings of petalled in English

(Of flowers) having petals.

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Examples for "petaled"
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Opposite the latticed heart of the square-petaled rose our flight was checked.
The Metal Monster
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Then she picked the many-petaled, daisylike yarrow used for poultices and pain.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
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The flashing, petaled heart was woven of living rainbows of cold flame.
The Metal Monster
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The gold chains are made of small, handcrafted, two-sided links of six-petaled olive blossoms.
Reuters
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The sea, that gleamed still, like a myriad-petaled rose
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
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But the floral kingdom was not responsible for that swirl of petalous whiteness.
The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
Usage of petalled in English
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At his right hand white Jizo-Sama stands upon a many-petalled rosy lotus.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series
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Flowers not very large, five-petalled, and of a pleasing bright yellow colour.
Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
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Ames was the king-pin, the snowy-petalled Marguerite, the star-bright looloo of the rewrite men.
Whirligigs
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It was impossible to be more propped and pencilled, more delicately tinted and petalled.
The Author of Beltraffio
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I pick a soft-petalled rose, a white rose, and I give it to him.
The King’s Curse
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The child wakes again and screams at the yellow petalled flower flickering at the window.
Men, Women and Ghosts
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Hilaria hesitated, still slightly leaning forward like a great full-petalled blossom heavy with approaching night.
Secret Bread
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The flag of Hong Kong features a distinctive five-petalled white flower on a red background.
BBC
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It was wild-looking but graceful, with densely petalled, fragrant blossoms that opened just once each summer.
Wired
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Lord Henry smiled, and, leaning down, plucked a pink-petalled daisy from the grass, and examined it.
The picture of Dorian Gray (First printing version)
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With all my pink and petalled force I'd coax him unto me;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916
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There was a profusion of gorgeously coloured drawings: of her son Alexander, of slinky cats and floppy-petalled flowers.
The Guardian
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They were loose-petalled and exquisitely sweet.
The Happy Adventurers
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Yellow-petalled wildflowers blurred by the roadside.
BBC
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It was of gold, and upon it there was an exquisitely modelled, five-petalled little flower in vivid red enamel.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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There were no pictures on the walls but here and there boughs laden with heavy-petalled flowers spread widely against them.
The Voyage Out
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