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Petal   /pˈɛtəl/   Listen
noun
Petal  n.  
1.
(Bot.) One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla.
2.
(Zool.) One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini.





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"Petal" Quotes from Famous Books



... white-crepe peignoir, and there was no color in her cheeks. Her skin had the soft whiteness of a rose petal. Her eyes were like stars. As I lay there and looked at her I wondered if it was Anthony's kisses or the memory of Olaf's singing which had made her eyes ...
— The Gay Cockade • Temple Bailey
... My burning, breaking being; So when cold death Will put out the light In some wilderness Of far forsaken life Might each kiss blossom Into a lotus and a Shephali.[2] And in the desolate hours Of loneliness of traveling In the dusk of despair One petal of these Will cheer the vagrant souls That tread the pathway Of love's forsaking. Or, when Death will sow This Soul of mine On the lake-shore of sorrow, Like a weeping willow I will spring, And with my green tresses And bending body Shall shelter secrecy-seeking lovers ...
— Sandhya - Songs of Twilight • Dhan Gopal Mukerji
... Even the private secretary of His Excellency hesitated to have this rubber prince and mahogany baron haled before him as a common citizen of Anchuria. So he sent Goodwin a flowery epistle, each word-petal dripping with honey, requesting the favour of an interview. Goodwin replied with an invitation to dinner at his ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry
... the director showed us some very curious and exquisite specimens of castings, such as baskets of flowers, in which the most delicate and fragile blossoms, the curl of a petal, the finest veins in a leaf, the lightest flower-spray that ever quivered in a breeze, were perfectly preserved; and the basket contained an abundant heap of such sprays. There were likewise a pair ...
— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... of the petal species, unquestionably fine as to framing, but leaving little space for the effect of the glass, which they hold only ...
— The Cathedrals of Northern France • Francis Miltoun


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