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petal

noun
🔊/ˈpetl/
🔊/ˈpetl/
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  1. a delicate coloured part of a flower. The head of a flower is usually made up of several petals around a central part.花瓣
    Topics Plants and treesc1
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryPetal is used after these nouns:
    • flower
    • rose
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    Word Originearly 18th cent.: from modern Latin petalum (in late Latin ‘metal plate’), from Greek petalon ‘leaf’, neuter (used as a noun) of petalos ‘outspread’.