petaly

English

Noun

petaly (uncountable)

  1. (botany) The condition of having petals.
    Antonym: apetaly
    • 1899, John Merle Coulter, ‎M. S. Coulter, ‎Charles Reid Barnes, Botanical Gazette (volume 28, page 281)
      He suggested that well-established plants, as shrubs and trees, as well as those which mass their flowers may dispense with petals. Petaly is apparently correlated with entomophily, and apetaly with anemophily.
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