Meanings
adjectivecatapetalous (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyHaving the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
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 […]
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catapetalous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catapetalous
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“catapetalous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catapetalous. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “catapetalous,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catapetalous.
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