petaloid

adjective

Resembling a petal.

In botany, having the form of a petal; resembling petals in texture and color, as certain bracts.

In zoology, resembling a leaf or petal; specifically, noting those heterogeneous ambulacra of some echinoderms, as of the Clypeastroida, of which the apical part is wide in the middle and tapers to a point at the margin, where it joins the oral portion. See cuts under ambulacrum, cake-urchin, and petalostichous.

Having the general form of a leaf.

adjective

Petaline.

adjective

Resembling the petal of a flower

adjective

resembling a flower petal