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petal

[pet-l] / ˈpɛt l /
NOUN
calyx
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"Each piece of fabric, each petal, is made from different material. It was top-stitched to give the impression of veining," she said.

From Barron's Feb. 12, 2026

Today, Haynes tries to replicate 70% of her most popular core patterns such as sunrise travel mugs, petal power vases and flower power butter keepers.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 18, 2024

And for dessert they were served a rose macaroon cookie, composed of rose petal cream, raspberries and lychees.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2024

Remarkably, when the researchers removed chromatin loops, progenitor cells swiftly converted round nuclear shapes into flower petal arrangements like those found in neutrophils.

From Science Daily Feb. 14, 2024

Each square had a plain white background, but in the center was a pinwheel-shaped flower, every petal a different colored fabric.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Two helicopters circled to drop rose petals over the Virgin Mary, which stands in a large crown with open arms, during Saturday's ceremony.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Women leaned from apartment windows, filming the march on their phones, while others scattered rice and rose petals over the men carrying the coffins.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Patni commemorated Akash with a framed photograph and a life-size cutout, decorated with flowers and surrounded by scattered rose petals and lit lamps.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

When Mr. Haskell turns his lens on seagrass flowers, we glimpse organisms marvelously adapted to their watery environment, petals miniaturized into “scalelike shields,” with fruit and seeds protected as if in a bathyscape.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

A few faded petals clung now to the new-leafed branches, but most of the Bride’s flowers had fallen, forming a wilted carpet beneath us.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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