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(of flowers) having four petals.

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Usage examples (5)
  • And open it, so that it is a glittering, rosy, moist, honied, heavy-petalled four-petalled flower.
  • By chance it was Welsh woollen cloth, patterned in a regular array of crude four-petalled flowers in a dim blue; many of its kind found their way into English homes...
  • It is associated with the colour red, and is symbolised by a four-petalled lotus flower.
  • I don't see what mingling is meant, except that it is just like Erica tetralix in the leaf, only, apparently, having little four-petalled pinks for blossoms.
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