petal
noun/ˈpetl/
/ˈpetl/
- a delicate coloured part of a flower. The head of a flower is usually made up of several petals around a central part.Topics Plants and treesc1Oxford Collocations DictionaryPetal is used after these nouns:
- flower
- rose
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from modern Latin petalum (in late Latin ‘metal plate’), from Greek petalon ‘leaf’, neuter (used as a noun) of petalos ‘outspread’.Definitions on the go
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