| 释义 |
petalled, petaled, a.|ˈpɛtəld|
[f. petal n. + -ed2.]
a. Furnished or adorned with or as with petals; having petals. Also, formed like or resembling a petal or petals.
1793Martyn Lang. Bot., Petalodes flos, a petalled flower. 1823Beddoes Romance of Lily Poems 145 The other curls, and bends its bell Petalled inwards as it fell. 1845T. Cooper Purgatory of Suicides (1877) 109 The purple eye petalled with snow. 1862G. M. Hopkins Vision of Mermaids (1929), Betwixt ten thousand petall'd lips. 1888Swinburne in 19th Cent. XXIII. 318 Fledged not as birds are, but petalled as flowers. 1929G. C. Allen Oxf. Poetry 1 Let's pick the petals of all joy apart, And launch them uncontrolled on the wind-stream With gleam of petalled gold. 1937Blunden Elegy 74 The petalled cloud and the blue brook aflow. 1975G. Howell In Vogue 30 Delysia looking curious in a petalled evening dress.
b. In parasynthetic compounds, as crimson-petalled, large-petalled, six-petalled, etc.
1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) I. 160 Bloss. 2-petaled. 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy i. 51 The ripe-cheeked fruits, the crimson-petalled flowers. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 44 Viola... Flowers often dimorphic, the large-petalled flowering early..; the small-petalled or apetalous flower late. |