How to use petal in a sentence

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• A single locus governing the petal colour character was detected on the linkage group A2.From the entry character
• The petalled rim of the sunflower glowed in the morning sunlight.From the entry petalled
• The rose petals and mood lighting at the restaurant provide great atmosphere.From the entry mood lighting
• He noted that the flower's petals were incurvate.From the entry incurvate
• A plant with four petals and six stamens is anisomerous.From the entry anisomerous
• The sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs.From the entry phyllous
• Chinese hibiscus, five large red petals like arms and legs and a head; a long staminal column.2024, Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall, Solaris (2025), page 23. From the entry staminal
• This sweet bean gelée, called yōkan, is studded with candied chestnuts colored yellow by gardenia petals.2021 March 23, Hannah Kirshner, “Kuri Yōkan”, in Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town…. From the entry gelée
• The landmark configuration included the shape of the periplastronal ambulacrals and paired petals.2016 February 6, “Ecophenotypic Variation and Developmental Instability in the Late Cretaceous Echinoid Micraster brevis (Irregularia…. From the entry periplastronal
• It's a poculiform (cup-shaped) G. elwesii with six pure white petals of the same length.2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8. From the entry grower
• Its velvet petals, red as heart's blood, begin to wither, frostburned.2013, Sarah Ash, Songspinners. From the entry frostburned
• Is it possible to continue such a tessellation to have the full petal around the tetracontadigon?2010, Sergei Abramovich, Topics in Mathematics for Elementary Teachers, page 90. From the entry tetracontadigon
• They were kissing, the side petals lip to lip within a hood formed by the upper petals.[2010, Richard Mabey, “Love-in-idleness”, in Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gategrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think about…. From the entry kiss-her-in-the-buttery
• Her lips were as velvety smooth as the petals of a princy feather and unbelievably sweet.1997, Martha Kirkland, chapter 10, in Pratt’s Landing (Our Town; 18), New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry princy
• They get their name from the hairs on the outside of the flower petals.1960 winter, Margaret M. Lee, “Worth Exploring: The Begonia Family”, in California Garden, volume 51, number 4, San Diego, Calif.: San…. From the entry hirsute
• A cross cercellée upon a shield within a circle and outer ring of petals.1936, Thoroton Society, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire. From the entry cercellée
• The flowers, oppressive to the eyes, blazed with not a petal stirring, in a debauch of sun.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC…. From the entry debauch
• Sepals awn-pointed, as long as the notched, rose-coloured or whitish petals.1926, Henry Byron Spotton, A. Cosens, T. J. Ivey, Wild Plants of Canada: A Flora, with Descriptive Key of Families Represented, page 156. From the entry Carolina cranesbill
• If the petals of your garden dianthus (pinks) are stained brown, they too are victims of similar smut.2021 June 16, Phil Gates, “Country diary: in the fight to survive, red campion is a surprise battleground”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry smut
• Tamarix flowers are anisomerous ( a flower having an unequal number of petals, stamens , or other floral parts).2019, Amram Eshel, Chingiz Alekperov, Dafna Langgut, and Israel Oren, “Pollen Morphology of the Genus Tamarix in Israel”, in Bilquees Gul…. From the entry anisomerous
• Its center held a pretty brass flower, painted white with soft pink tips on the petals, just like clover.2015, Susan Vaught, “Three Weeks Later”, in Footer Davis Might be Probably is Crazy (A Paula Wiseman Book), New York, N.Y.: Simon &…. From the entry aventurine
• For the expression of MADS-box genes, mature flowers were dissected into their individual floral organs (sepals, petals, labellums and gynostemiums).2015 November 19, “Digital Gene Expression Analysis Based on De Novo Transcriptome Assembly Reveals New Genes Associated with Floral Organ…. From the entry gynostemium
• I mixed two colors together—a petal pink and fuchsia—but get creative with it and use whatever color or colors you like.2015, Adrianna Adarme, The Year of Cozy, page 94. From the entry petal pink
• Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.2012, Lenora Worth, Sweetheart Reunion. From the entry flirt
• The white streaks on stenandrium petals are more than decoration.2012 February 15, Carolyn Dodson, A Guide to Plants of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert, UNM Press, →ISBN. From the entry stenandrium
• It floated above us like a fizzing star at the end of a tiny white petal of a parachute.2009, James Fleming, chapter 55, in Cold Blood, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2010, →ISBN, page 262. From the entry flare
• His attention was drawn by the sewali flowers blooming with small, soft, white petals, fluttering in the mild air.2000, Kamaleswar Sarma, Raghunath Choudhury, page 5. From the entry sewali
• The short wing petals and abruptly angled keel petals are diagnostic features which distinguish the sweetvetches in flower.1990, Stanley L. Welsh, David B. Williams, Grand Views of Canyon Country: A Driving Guide, page 30. From the entry sweetvetch
• Orange Peel is the finest cultivar with good-sized open lantern flowers of great substance with their characteristic thick waxy petals.1983, Gray-Wilson, Christopher & Matthews, Victoria, Gardening with Climbers, Collins, page 78. From the entry orange peel
• Red roses for your hair—every petal a hollowed ruby.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry gaud
• 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. From the entry petaloid
• And as I write I am told of a recipe showing how, in the Wortlore of old, the firm white petals were esteemed of use.2012, Henry A. Bright, A Year in a Lancashire Garden - Page 6. From the entry wortlore
• As she trotted down the white path, each swish of her tail sent petals dancing through the air, falling where the bride would walk.2011, A. C. August, The Highway Cross, page 116. From the entry swish
• The sepal and the petal are essentially leaf-like in form and anatomy but generally simpler in detailed structure than a foliage leaf.2009, Shubhrata R. Mishra, Understanding Plant Reproduction, Discovery Publishing House, page 164. From the entry sepal
• The petals are interwoven with nadis, minute nerve and force channels; some clairvoyants say the nadis create the petal shapes, others than they envein them.2009 04, Richard Leviton, Santa Fe Light, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 482. From the entry envein
• Among the starters are crab meat resala, delicate, sweet petals of crab with a turmeric-onion soubise; and tender fried quail dressed with a bacon vinaigrette.2008 June 15, “The Other Hot Spot”, in New York Times. From the entry soubise
• The white flowers have purple veins on the lower three petals and a purple tinge on the back of the uppermost petals.2003, Peter White, Wildflowers of the Smokies, page 64. From the entry Canadian violet

Meaning of petal

1. noun One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.
2. noun The labia (majora).
3. noun Term of endearment.

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How do you use petal in a sentence?

Petal is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A single locus governing the petal colour character was detected on the linkage group A2.”

What is a short sentence with petal?

“'It's okay, petal, it's okay.'”

What does petal mean?

Petal means one of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.