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petaloid

petaloid adjective: resembling the petal of a flower.

Adjective

petaloid (comparative more petaloid, superlative most petaloid)

  1. Resembling the petal of a flower.
    • From whence he concludes, that no apetalous can be a perfect Flower, since the only Fence of a Flower consists in its being petaloid.1720, Patrick Blair, Botanick essays, London
    • 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.1916, Wilson Crosfield Worsdell, The Principles of Plant-teratology, volume 2, Ray Society, page 204

Noun

petaloid (plural petaloids)

  1. A petaloid structure in a flower.
    • 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.2020, Tingyun Kuang, Xuchu Wang, Xiaochun Qin, Shaojun Dai, Pingfang Yang, Ling Li, editors, Plant Protein and Proteome Altlas--Integrated Omics Analyses of Plants under Abiotic Stress, MDPI, page 355
    • One or more rows of large outer petals lying flat or undulating, with a mass of intermingled petaloids and stamens in the center.2024 September 30, Wikipedia contributors, “Camellia japonica”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation

petaloid meaning in Tamil

petaloid in Tamil

அல்லி போன்ற, அல்லிப்போலி, அல்லியொத்த, அல்லிபோன்ற, சிற்றிதழ்

Forms of petaloid

Adjective
comparativemore petaloid
superlativemost petaloid
Noun
pluralpetaloids

Origin of petaloid

From petal + -oid.

Words formed from petaloid

Questions about petaloid

What does petaloid mean?
Petaloid means resembling the petal of a flower.
What is petaloid in Tamil?
Petaloid in Tamil is அல்லி போன்ற, அல்லிப்போலி, அல்லியொத்த. See Petaloid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is petaloid?
Petaloid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near petaloid in the dictionary

  1. petalodont
  2. petalodontiform
  3. petalodontiforms
  4. petalodonts
  5. petalody
  6. petaloid
  7. petaloidal
  8. petaloideous
  9. petaloids
  10. petaloidy
  11. petalomania

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Adapted from Wiktionary: petaloid (page history and authors); petaloid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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