PETALS Antonyms

• the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma

• the male reproductive organ of a flower

• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

• a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

• cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

• the tube of a tobacco pipe

• front part of a vessel or aircraft

• a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

• grow out of, have roots in, originate in

• cause to point inward

• stop the flow of a liquid

• remove the stem from

• a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence

• a partially opened flower

• a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals

• develop buds

• start to grow or develop

• the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

• a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)

• hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)

• look through a book or other written material

• turn over pages

• produce leaves, of plants

• one of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower

• a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae