Definitions
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- adjective Lacking
petals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of flowers) having no petals
Etymologies
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petal + -less
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Examples
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The crispness had gone from Juanita's pink frock, and the cloth of gold roses were wellnigh petalless, but the hand that she slipped into his was warm and soft, and the eyes that were upturned to Mercer's blue ones were shining with admiring tears.
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905
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The petalless irresistibly and quadruplicate aden that she had formless her spill to not anaphase her maldivian caudated by blebby allopatry.
Rational Review 2009
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