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petalous

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pet·al·ous  (ptl-s)
adj.
Having petals.
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Adj.1.petalous - (of flowers) having petals
petaled, petalled
apetalous, petalless - (of flowers) having no petals
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Examples follow: TUPELO ta1= couplet, eelpout, gluepot, octuple, opulent, outleap, outyelp, pollute TUPELO ta2 = copulate, grouplet, nonuplet, octuplet, outsleep, outspell, petalous Even the fuller name EAST TUPELO can be transadded, thus: EAST TUPELO ta1 = expostulate EAST TUPELO ta2 = expostulated, expostulates Sometime in the late 1930s, the Presleys lost the house on Old Saltillo Road and lived in a series of small houses in East Tupelo.
Silvery sleep by Francis, Darryl / Word Ways
The unnatural luxuriance of the plant's petalous form at first glance strikes the eye as a performance in haute couture, an extravagant draping in accessory foliature borrowed from an adjacent naked stamen: a "pseudoplant," then, in the manner of Joan Fontcuberta, though infinitely more elegant.
Gary Schneider's photographs: through glass, darkly by Sedofsky, Lauren / Artforum International
 
 
 
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