英:['petld]
美:['petld]
英:['petld]
美:['petld]
New Latin petalum, from Greek petalon; akin to Greek petannynai to spread out — more at fathom
The first known use of petal was in 1712
petition1 of 2noun
an earnest request : entreaty
a formal written request made to a superior or authority
petition2 of 2verb
to make a request to or forespecially: to make a formal written request
petition1 of 2noun
an earnest request : entreaty
a formal written request made to a superior or authority
petition2 of 2verb
to make a request to or forespecially: to make a formal written request
petition1 of 2noun
an earnest request : entreaty
a formal written request made to a superior or authority
petition2 of 2verb
to make a request to or forespecially: to make a formal written request
petiteadjective
having a small trim figure
petiolenoun
the thin stem of a leaf
peter1 of 2verb
to slowly come to an end—usually used with out
her popularity petered out
to become exhausted—usually used with out
raked half the lawn before he petered out
Peter2 of 2noun
either of two letters written to early Christians and included as books of the New Testament see bible table
petalnoun
one of the often brightly colored modified leaves that make up the corolla of a flower
petalnoun
one of the often brightly colored modified leaves that make up the corolla of a flower
1 Perhaps it was the unexpectedness of it, perhaps it was sheer amazement that left her hand lying idly relaxed like a white petalled blossom in his.
2 It was impossible to be more propped and pencilled, more delicately tinted and petalled.
3 It was a pleasant room enough, with two windows looking to the south—little round-budded, pale- petalled monthly roses nodding and peeping within the opened window-frames.
4 There are numerous petals under the tree.
树下有数不清的花瓣。
5 Flowers five petalled, creamy white, sometimes very slightly tinged with flesh colour, with a coppery red or violet-purple centre, and disposed in racemes.
6 The sky overhead is an eight - spoked prayer wheel and the ground below an eight - petalled lotus.
天如八幅轮,地如八瓣莲,吉祥无比.
7 flowers with pink and white petals
8 There are some that grow one really unusual petal: this long strand, with a little bulb at the end of it.
9 Wide petalled, burning red, their golden hearts open to sun and bee, they were the blossoms for the earth-woman.
10 Down here the flowering hawthorn flings Sleet of petals, petalled shells Spread the coloured air that sings Magic and a myriad spells Spun by my count of Springs.
11 The summer bees came and filled all those heather-purpled acres with their industrial lays, and sang a merry song in the door of every wild-flower that gave them the petalled honey of its heart.
12 My beloved was not mine, tho’ I was wholly hers, and the lilies at her breast were petalled with consuming flame.
13 As it means "many petalled," it is not the best possible name, but it is the old one and in almost universal use.
14 Lo the petalled leafage is finer, under the feet The coarse soil with a rainbow's worth Of delicate colours lies enamelled, Translucently glowing, shining.
15 The fact that the lamp – with its cheery petalled face – had been designed by an artist was important, he said.
16 The petals of the flowers expanded in the sunshine.
花瓣在阳光下张开了。
17 They formed now a star of six points about the petalled dais, and, simultaneously, they drew from their faces the covering cowls.
18 Thereafter, with perfume and paint and jewelry, she added to the splendor of her petalled seduction.
19 Even better than these were the large, multi-petalled blooms: single flowers that fill the palm of your hand.
比这些搭配更好的还有大朵重瓣的花卉:一朵就满掌的大花。
20 Had he used his mind more upon the problems of his love, and less upon its celebration in petalled phrases, his mind would not have deserted him so lamentably in the hour of his need.