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unpetaled

unpetaled is the alternative form of unpetalled.

unpetaled is the simple past and past participle of unpetal.

Meaning of unpetalled

Adjective

unpetalled (not comparable)

  1. Without petals.
  2. Stripped of petals.
    • Ravaged and unpetalled, the rose twists its thin stem into the void. Only its thorns remain, hard and almost black, like concretions of sorrow, anger […]1994, Sylvie Germain, The Medusa Child

Meaning of unpetal

Verb

unpetal (third-person singular simple present unpetals, present participle (US) unpetaling or (UK) unpetalling, simple past and past participle (US) unpetaled or (UK) unpetalled)

  1. (transitive) To strip the petals from (a flower).

Origin of unpetaled

From un- + petaled.

Questions about unpetaled

What is unpetaled the alternative form of?
Unpetaled is the alternative form of unpetalled.

Words near unpetaled in the dictionary

  1. unpessimistic
  2. unpessimistically
  3. unpestered
  4. unpestilential
  5. unpetal
  6. unpetaled
  7. unpetaling
  8. unpetalled
  9. unpetalling
  10. unpetals
  11. unpetitioned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpetaled (page history and authors); unpetalled (page history and authors); unpetal (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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