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petaly

petaly noun: the condition of having petals.

Noun

petaly (uncountable)

  1. The condition of having petals.
    • He suggested that well-established plants, as shrubs and trees, as well as those which mass their flowers may dispense with petals. Petaly is apparently correlated with entomophily, and apetaly with anemophily.1899, John Merle Coulter, M. S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Botanical Gazette, volume 28, page 281
    Antonyms:
    apetaly

Antonyms of petaly

Questions about petaly

What does petaly mean?
Petaly means the condition of having petals.
What part of speech is petaly?
Petaly is a noun.

Words near petaly in the dictionary

  1. petalum
  2. Petaluma
  3. petalurid
  4. petalurids
  5. petalwise
  6. petaly
  7. petameter
  8. petameters
  9. petametre
  10. petametres
  11. petanque

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