Noun: petal
| Singular | petal |
| Plural | petals |
Sample Sentences
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Dawn held her breath, fearing he'd notice the slight protrusion where her babe rested beneath her heart, but he barely paused as his mouth found the tiny jewel hidden within the dewy petals of her sex. [1999, Connie Mason, chapter 19, in Shadow Walker, Leisure Books, page 362:]
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She is freezing cold. Sputtering. Big eyes wide and wet and red. Too shocked even to cry. 'It's okay, petal, it's okay.' [2011, Jo Baker, The Picture Book:]
Nouns inflected like petal
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *pet-der.
4. Proto-Hellenic *pétalos
5. Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon)lbor.
6. English petal
7. Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πέταλον (pétalon), from πέταλος (pétalos, “broad, flat”), from Proto-Hellenic *pétalos, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”), whence Latin pandō and Proto-Germanic *faþmaz (“embrace”) (English fathom). See: Latin Nouns '
pandō', English Nouns '
fathom'.
Verbs referencing "petal"
Portuguese Nouns
pétala.