Usually means: Leaf-like part of flower.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. petal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. petal: Merriam-Webster
  3. petal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. petal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. -petal, petal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. petal: Vocabulary.com
  7. Petal, petal: Wordnik
  8. petal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Petal: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. -petal, petal: Wiktionary
  11. -petal, petal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. petal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. petal: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. -petal, petal: Dictionary.com
  15. petal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. petal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Petal (band), Petal (disambiguation), Petal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Petal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. petal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. petal: Rhymezone
  21. petal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. petal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. petal: FreeDictionary.org
  24. petal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. petal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. petal-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. petal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. -petal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PETAL: Acronym Finder

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ORCHID GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  4. petal: Rhododendron Glossary
  5. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  7. petal: Natural History Terms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. petal: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. petal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See petaled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (botany) One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.
noun:  Term of endearment.
noun:  (geometry) A lobe of a rose (geometric shape).
verb:  (ambitransitive) To spread out from, like the petals of a flower

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