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petal

noun as in calyx

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noun as in leaf

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That’s not to say that the process is fast—it can take a month for the petals to fully dry out—but your work load up front is minimal.

Marigolds’ fluffy, tightly-packed petals set them apart from other garden favorites, but you can be even more certain you’ve found the right plant by looking for its distinctive fern-like leaves.

As the first wave of the pandemic raged in India, Modi called for festivals of light and asked the air force to dispatch helicopters to shower hospitals with flower petals.

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If your artichoke is mature, it may have purple, thorny petals inside.

The artichokes are done when the large outer petals can be easily pulled off.

The shopper bags continued the petal effect, made perhaps from extra material from a wedding dress covered in rosettes.

And to keep the sun out of her eyes, the Burberry girl will be wearing white framed, petal-shaped dark glasses next spring.

He only brushed a flower so lightly with his fingertips that he did not disturb as much as a petal.

The satirical Petal Paper found an audience—but more and more of them were out of state.

He lived in the small town of Petal, Mississippi, across the river from Hattiesburg.

Its shape is of a lotos bud, and the long fissures that plough a mountain side are now but delicate gold veining on a petal.

"Then I am quite sure you will remember," she laughed, and fell to picking a rose apart, petal by petal.

She took another bungling stitch in the petal of a white floss daisy.

Ariadne was the white and slender lily, slowly unfolding petal after petal in obedience to the law of its own inner growth.

That other night, after he had gone home, he had found a solitary pink petal clinging to his scarf-pin.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to petal, such as: husk, leaf, and sepal.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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