Catapetalous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Catapetalous is an adjective meaning (botany) Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
Meaning
(botany) Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
Example Sentences
1962 (posthumously published) Mark Twain, A Cat Tale in Letters from the Earth […] ever and anon the enchanted eye wandered from congeries of lordly cat-tails and kindred catapetalous blooms too deep for utterance […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include petalled, apopetalous, gamopetalous, stenopetalous, petaloideous, carpellate.
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