apetaly

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noun

The condition of having no petals

Opposite
petaly
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Meanings

nounapetaly (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiologyThe condition of having no petals

    He suggested that well-established plants, as shrubs and trees, as well as those which mass their flowers may dispense with petals. Petaly is apparently correlated with entomophily, and apetaly with anemophily.

    1899, John Merle Coulter, M. S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Botanical Gazette, volume 28, page 281

    Antonyms: petaly

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe condition of having no petals

Opposite
petaly
Also see
apetalousness
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Chicago

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