empetaled

Adjective

empetalled (not comparable)

1. Covered with petals or petal-like objects.
   • 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:1872, Roden Noel, “A Sea Symphony”, in The Red Flag and Other Poems, London: Strahan, page 247
2. Resembling petals. (of a large number of similar objects)
   • 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...1935, Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River, Garden City, NY: Sun Dial, published 1944, Book II, XIX, p. 202