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Meaning of catapetalous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.

not-comparable

Examples

“1962 (posthumously published) Mark Twain, A Cat Tale in Letters from the Earth […] ever and anon the enchanted eye wandered from congeries of lordly cat-tails and kindred catapetalous blooms too deep for utterance […]”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

cataphatic cataphonic cataphoretic cataphoric cataphract cataphracted

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