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petaloids

petaloids is the plural of petaloid.

Meaning of petaloid

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

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Questions about petaloids

What is petaloids the plural of?
Petaloids is the plural of petaloid.

Words near petaloids in the dictionary

  1. petalodonts
  2. petalody
  3. petaloid
  4. petaloidal
  5. petaloideous
  6. petaloids
  7. petaloidy
  8. petalomania
  9. petalonamid
  10. petalonamids
  11. petalous

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