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catapetalous

catapetalous adjective: having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.

Adjective

catapetalous (not comparable)

  1. Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
    • 1962 (posthumously published) Mark Twain, A Cat Tale in Letters from the Earth
      […] ever and anon the enchanted eye wandered from congeries of lordly cat-tails and kindred catapetalous blooms too deep for utterance […]

Origin of catapetalous

From cata- + petalous.

Questions about catapetalous

What does catapetalous mean?
Catapetalous means having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
What part of speech is catapetalous?
Catapetalous is an adjective.

Words near catapetalous in the dictionary

  1. catapans
  2. catapasm
  3. catapasms
  4. catapeltic
  5. catapeltics
  6. catapetalous
  7. cataphasia
  8. cataphasis
  9. cataphatic
  10. cataphatically
  11. cataphile

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