Petaloid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Petaloid is an adjective meaning (botany) Resembling the petal of a flower.
Meaning
(botany) Resembling the petal of a flower.
More Meanings
- (botany) A petaloid structure in a flower.
Example Sentences
One or more rows of large outer petals lying flat or undulating, with a mass of intermingled petaloids and stamens in the center.
From whence he concludes, that no apetalous can be a perfect Flower, since the only Fence of a Flower consists in its being petaloid.
A peach tree, flowering in July for the second time in Kew Gardens, had double flowers, all of which were proliferated, and many of the outermost carpels were petaloid in part.
Comparative transcriptomic studies among petal, stamen petaloid and stamen through RNA-seq were conducted, which identified several candidate genes involved in stamen petaloid, especially some MADS-box genes.
Word Forms
- petaloids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include perianth, celt, ambulacra, sepals, staminodes, petalloid.
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