Cecilia J. used to read "The Wizard of Oz," and drew a four-petaled flower on page 27.    From Wordnik.com.  [September 2005] Reference

The plant may at once be recognized by the heart-shaped pods and small, white, four-petaled flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

They know that much from the Remington plastic four-petaled Power Piston wad that Scarpetta recovered from the inside of Daggie Simister's devastated head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Predator]

The four-petaled flowers are about 3 inches across and bloom for a single day or two and close up shortly after the first direct sunlight shines down upon them, opening again in the evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

When in blossom, the plant is from twelve to fifteen inches in height; the flowers are small, white, and four-petaled; the seeds are small, of a reddish-brown color, and retain their vitality five years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

In my mind, United just ain't United without the iconic, four-petaled U on the tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Politics] Reference

Cruciferous vegetables, like kale, get their name from the four-petaled flowers, which look like a crucifer or cross.    From Wordnik.com.  [foodconsumer.org] Reference

The four-petaled flowers, -- the cross-bearers, -- were never poisonous, and many of them, as mustard and cabbage, were valuable for food or medicine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters of the Guild] Reference

While awaiting the slow progress of the carts through the mud I found a most curious new genus allied to Correa, with the habit of C. speciosa, and with long tubular four-petaled green flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference

But their calices are five-sepaled, falling into divisions of two and three; and the flowers, though essentially four-petaled, may divide either the upper or lower petal, or both, into two lobes, and so present a six-lobed outline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

Tolerance, gratitude, appreciation blossomed frailly; and over all there spread, like those hosts of four-petaled flowers we used to call bluets, which grew in such abundance among rarer violets or wild strawberry -- there spread through Ruth's awakened nature a thousand and one little kindly impulses that had to do with smiles for servants, kind words for old people, and courtesy to clerks in shops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Wheel A Novel] Reference

Three petaled and three-sepaled, four-petaled and four-sepaled, five-petaled and five-sepaled, etc., etc., are essential -- with me, primal -- elements of definition; next, whether resolute or stellar in their connection; next, whether round or pointed, etc. Fancy, for instance, the fatality to a rose of pointing its petals, and to a lily, of rounding them!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

When in blossom, the plant is about two feet in height, or length; the leaves are winged, with five or six pairs of rounded leaflets, and, in deep water, are often immersed, or float upon the surface; the flowers are small, white, four-petaled, and terminate the stalks in loose spikes; the seeds are very small, reddish-brown, and retain their powers of germination five years, -- nearly a hundred and twenty thousand are contained in an ounce.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference