petal
noun /ˈpetl/
/ˈpetl/
- enlarge imagea delicate coloured part of a flower. The head of a flower is usually made up of several petals around a central part.
花瓣 Topics Plants and treesc1Collocations DictionaryPetal is used after these nouns:- flower
- rose
词源early 18th cent.: from modern Latin petalum (in late Latin ‘metal plate’), from Greek petalon ‘leaf’, neuter (used as a noun) of petalos ‘outspread’.