flower petal
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- noun
- Specialized
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pétalo
- I put scented soap, special oils, and flower petals into the water.
- strewn with flower petals
- edible flower petals
- yellow flower petals
Examples
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Gently rub the lobes between your thumb and index finger as if you were rubbing the morning dew off a flower petal.
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The flower petal had come from a lily.
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I got the flower petals here.
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Are these your flower petals?
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And floating on the surface was a flower petal.
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I am thinking about trying this with edible flower petals!
Blog text (9) -
The floor was strewn with crushed flower petals, dust, and random brown lumps.
Academic text (2012) -
I always make my lotion with oil that I've infused with calendula flower petals.
Blog text (23) -
"Is that what they're saying?" The escort marched them along an avenue lined with onlookers, cheering and tossing flower petals.
Fiction book (1995) -
The garden was vibrant with flower petals of every color, creating a beautiful landscape.
Synonyms
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A thin colored part of a flower that surrounds the center
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents are semantically compatible and the meaning is directly compositional: a 'petal' is a part of a flower, so 'flower petal' simply denotes a petal of a flower. This transparent, redundant noun–noun combination is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understood by a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Flower petal is the soft, colored piece that grows from a flower and is called a petal. Think of a thin, bright bit falling like a tiny wing, and that picture shows why it means 'a part of a flower'.