The petals of each blossom are five in number -- what a number of five-petalled flowers we have seen!. From Wordnik.com. [Wildflowers of the Farm] Reference
The moment I saw the mourning brooch, matte black, a five-petalled flower (Forget-me-not?), I tried to skip past it. From Wordnik.com. [The Child Who Loved Emily Dickinson] Reference
The toto, a small five-petalled white flower that grows in the rainy season, is worked into embroidered patterns with different petals, according to the taste of the individual artist. From Wordnik.com. [Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part One] Reference
The keel is fometimes fplit, and then this corolla is properly five-petalled. From Wordnik.com. [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference
That atrocious English doggerel, the signature -- a five-petalled flower traced in crimson!. From Wordnik.com. [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference
It was of gold, and upon it there was an exquisitely modelled, five-petalled little flower in vivid red enamel. From Wordnik.com. [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference
Another ingenious Chinese notion is to sew down little five-petalled flowers (turned under at the edges) with long stamen stitches radiating from a central eye of knots. From Wordnik.com. [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference
The heart-shaped, saw-edged leaves, folded toward the centre when newly put forth, and the five-petalled, bluish-purple, golden-hearted blossom are too familiar for more detailed description. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
These are the commonest plants; there are dozens more I know no name for -- a rich profusion in especial of a beautiful five-petalled flower whose white texture is pencilled with hair-strokes certain fair copyists I know of would have to hold their breath to imitate. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Hours] Reference
Not only does this formative power triumph over all obstacles in producing its special symmetry, but it evolves countless variations of it from one germ of life – as in the pear-tree's lattice-work of little twigs, pillars of trunk and branch, flat oval leaves, round five-petalled flowers, pitcher-shaped calix, pointed seeds and fruit like a falling raindrop. From Wordnik.com. [The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing] Reference
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