petaloid

English

Etymology

From petal +‎ -oid.

Adjective

petaloid (comparative more petaloid, superlative most petaloid)

1. (botany) Resembling the petal of a flower.
   • 1720, Patrick Blair, Botanick essays, London:

     From whence he concludes, that no apetalous can be a perfect Flower, since the only Fence of a Flower consists in its being petaloid.

   • 1916, Wilson Crosfield Worsdell, The Principles of Plant-teratology, volume 2, Ray Society, page 204:

     A peach tree, flowering in July for the second time in Kew Gardens, had double flowers, all of which were proliferated, and many of the outermost carpels were petaloid in part.

   • 1954 January, FJ HERMANN, A Synopsis of the Genus Arachis (Agriculture Monograph; No. 19), United States Department of Agriculture, page 15:

     On a single bush of Warai-gishi one usually can find some few normal single flowers, flowers with flaglike appendages to the otherwise normal anthers, petaloid filaments with traces of anther left, and completely transformed stamens.

Derived terms

• andropetaloid
• bracteopetaloid
• interpetaloid
• petaloideous
• petaloidy
• tripetaloid

Translations

resembling petals

• French: pétaloïde (fr)
• Italian: petaloideo

Noun

petaloid (plural petaloids)

1. (botany) A petaloid structure in a flower.
   • 2020, Tingyun Kuang, Xuchu Wang, Xiaochun Qin, Shaojun Dai, Pingfang Yang, Ling Li, editors, Plant Protein and Proteome Altlas--Integrated Omics Analyses of Plants under Abiotic Stress, MDPI, page 355:

     Comparative transcriptomic studies among petal, stamen petaloid and stamen through RNA-seq were conducted, which identified several candidate genes involved in stamen petaloid, especially some MADS-box genes.

   • 2024 September 30, Wikipedia contributors, “Camellia japonica”, in English Wikipedia‎^[1], Wikimedia Foundation:

     One or more rows of large outer petals lying flat or undulating, with a mass of intermingled petaloids and stamens in the center.

Anagrams

• lipoated, opdalite, pidolate, podetial

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French pétaloïde.

Adjective

petaloid m or n (feminine singular petaloidă, masculine plural petaloizi, feminine and neuter plural petaloide)

1. petaloid

Declension

Declension of petaloid

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	petaloid		petaloidă		petaloizi	petaloide
	definite	petaloidul		petaloida		petaloizii	petaloidele
genitive- dative	indefinite	petaloid		petaloide		petaloizi	petaloide
	definite	petaloidului		petaloidei		petaloizilor	petaloidelor