Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AN-DRO-PET'A-LOUS
AN-DRO-PET'A-LOUS, a. [Gr. ανηρ and πεταλον.]
An epithet given to double flowers, produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as in the garden ranunculus. Brande.
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