catapetalous
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- (botany) Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.
- 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 […]
- 1962 (posthumously published) Mark Twain, A Cat Tale in Letters from the Earth