empetalled
empetalled adjective: covered with petals or petal-like objects.
Adjective
empetalled (not comparable)
- 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 - There did she secretly also tender to the young Athenian the empetalled garland of her love, and all the girls dancing flung wreaths of flowers over the heads of the statues lining the way […]1948, Ross Lockridge, Jr., Raintree County, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 911
- Innocent billows on the strand
- 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
Forms of empetalled
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Origin of empetalled
From em- + petal + -ed.
Questions about empetalled
- What does empetalled mean?
- Empetalled means covered with petals or petal-like objects.
- What part of speech is empetalled?
- Empetalled is an adjective.
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