petaloid

1. 1.

   resembling a flower petal

Questions about petaloid

What does petaloid mean?

petaloid means "resembling a flower petal".

How many syllables are in petaloid?

petaloid has 3 syllables and divides as pe-ta-loid under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is petaloid a common word?

petaloid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.