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Original entry ↗noun
One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored. · The labia (majora). · Term of endearment. · A lobe of a rose (geometric shape).
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo spread out from, like the petals of a flower
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *pet-der. Proto-Hellenic *pétalos Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon)lbor. English petal Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon), from πέταλος (pétalos, “broad, flat”), from Proto-Hellenic *pétalos, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”), whence Latin pandō and Proto-Germanic *faþmaz (“embrace”) (English fathom).
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