Petal vs Abloom - What's the difference?
petal | abloom |
(botany) one of the component parts of the corolla of a flower, when this consists of separate parts, that is it is not fused. Petals are often brightly colored.
* 2011 , Jo Baker, The Picture Book
(postpositive) In or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding.
Blooming; covered in flowers.
(figuratively) Having something growing or grown.
* Gregory Hartswick, [Untitled], in , volume 27, number 3, January 1900, reprinted in, 1900, ''St. Nicholas volume 27, page 274 [http://books.google.com/books?id=QWUwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA274&dq=abloom]:
* 1902 , , Under the Trees , page62 [http://books.google.com/books?id=sNY8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA62&dq=abloom]:
* 1998 , , chapter 15:
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty.
* 1987 , Merrill J. Mattes, The Great Platte River Road , page 70:
* 1997 , , Jade , chapter 1:
As a noun petal
is petal.As an adverb abloom is
(postpositive) in or into bloom; in a blooming state; having flower blooms unfolding .As an adjective abloom is
blooming; covered in flowers .petal
English
Noun
(wikipedia petal) (en noun)- She is freezing cold. Sputtering. Big eyes wide and wet and red. Too shocked even to cry. 'It's okay, petal , it's okay.'
See also
* sepal * tepalAnagrams
*abloom
English
Adverb
(-)Adjective
(en adjective)- For Santa Claus comes / With reindeer and sleigh / To fill up the stockings on glad Christmas Day. / And there in the library / Stands a great tree / With gifts all abloom , most lovely to see!
- Who does not feel the passage of divine dreams over his troubled life when the infinite meadows of heaven are suddenly abloom with light?
- He was abloom with heat and anxiety. The sweat underneath his arms had turned into an oily slick.
- The Hollywood concept of clean-shaven, square-jawed young men and fragrant young ladies with cheeks abloom does not seem to square with the facts.
- When they returned, Jade's cheeks were abloom , her eyes alight with anticipation.