petaloid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling the petal of a flower.
Example Sentences
- "From whence he concludes, that no apetalous can be a perfect Flower, since the only Fence of a Flower consists in its being petaloid."
- "A peach tree, flowering in July for the second time in Kew Gardens, had double flowers, all of which were proliferated, and many of the outermost carpels were petaloid in part."
- "On a single bush of Warai-gishi one usually can find some few normal single flowers, flowers with flaglike appendages to the otherwise normal anthers, petaloid filaments with traces of anther left, and completely transformed stamens."
- "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."
- "One or more rows of large outer petals lying flat or undulating, with a mass of intermingled petaloids and stamens in the center."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *pet-der. Proto-Hellenic *pétalos Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon)lbor. English petal Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o- Proto-Indo-European *weyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *wéydos Proto-Hellenic *wéidos Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Proto-Hellenic *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs) Latin -oīdēslbor. English -oid English petaloid From petal + -oid.