petal
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- noun
- /ˈpɛtəl/
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pétalo
- She picked up a handful of flower petals to decorate the table for the celebration.
- flower petals
- rose petals
- petals and sepals
It's just it's kind of like petals just falling off a flower, right?
- It's just it's kind of like petals just falling off a flower, right?
- He's told me was was made out of crushed petals of flowers.
- I wouldn't think of how plants or how petals form on a flower.
- So white, really delicate looking petals with a really dark center, a dark eye.
- It has a really pretty big like round petal kind of wand.
- So this one's top scent are vanilla, sandalwood, Jasmine petals, cashmere wood, and pink pepper.
- Candles, rose petals, just pictures of us everywhere.
Examples
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Then he buried his nose in the petals and drew the sweet fragrance into his lungs.
Fiction book (1992) -
Yeah, couple of rose petals on the floor.
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I'm going to start with the fresh rose petal lip cream.
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Time to add some rose petals as if someone else did it for me.
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Soon, he would be able to open the petals of a real flower once again.
Fiction book (1991) -
So white, really delicate looking petals with a really dark center, a dark eye.
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Just need the rose petals for the basket.
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We grew dizzy as we walked and sang, casting the petals into the warm spring streets.
Fiction book (1990) -
I swept over the flowers, which nodded their delicate petals, welcoming me into the world.
Academic text (1990) -
It's water infused with cucumber, rose petal and harvest sandalwood.
Synonyms
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A soft, usually bright part of a flower
Compounds
How Showy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Petal comes from an old word petalon that meant 'leaf' or 'thin plate'. So a petal is like a soft, bright leaf around a flower that shows the flower to bees and other insects and helps attract them.