petaloid
adjectiveResembling 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.
adjectivePetaline.
adjectiveResembling the
resembling a flower petal