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What is the adjective for petals?

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petaloideous
  1. (botany) Having some or all of the perianth petaline.
petaline
  1. (botany) Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Other species of Leontice like Leontice leontopetalum and its alkaloid petaline chloride has been tested on guinea pig isolated smooth muscle and heart.”
petaloid
  1. (botany) Resembling the petal of a flower
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It has the most charming semi-double flowers, formed from four outer petals with several smaller, petaloid stamens inside.”
      “In the third whorl the stamens have petaloid cells on their filaments and no homeotic transformation is observed.”
      “The shape is most similar to petaloid A, but the deep emargination is more similar to that of the obovate shape.”
petallike
  1. Resembling a petal or some aspect of one.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Their flower clusters differ from lacecaps in that some varieties produce sterile flowers with petallike sepals, while others bear smaller fertile flowers with starry petals.”
petalloid
  1. (botany) Alternative form of petaloid
petalless
petaliform
  1. (botany) Having the form of a petal.
  2. Synonyms:
petaled
  1. (botany) Having or with petals.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The petaled rim of the sunflower glowed in the morning sunlight.”
      “The flowers usually are small and grow in showy clusters, and some species have petaled blooms.”
      “The Disan took a hook-shaped object from his waist and thrust it into the petaled orifice.”
petalsome
petaliferous
  1. Bearing petals.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Flowers are occasionally secondarily apetalous but may occasionally become secondarily petaliferous.”
petalled
  1. (botany) Having petals.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The petalled rim of the sunflower glowed in the morning sunlight.”
      “For a drift of silky petalled flowers of pinky-orange, plant the low-growing California poppy, Eschscholzia california, the flower that gave the Golden West its name.”
      “Thin petalled roses tend to be more susceptible, particularly the double varieties with lots of petals.”
petalous
  1. Having petals.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But the floral kingdom was not responsible for that swirl of petalous whiteness.”
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