Meanings
- uncountablebiologyThe condition of having 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 281Antonyms: apetaly
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nounThe condition of having petals.
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