Petal vs Clove - What's the difference?
petal | clove |
(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
A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
(label) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
* 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p. 202.
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 169:
(cleave)
(label) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
As nouns the difference between petal and clove
is that petal is petal while clove is a very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree or clove can be any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic or clove can be (label) a narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of north america first settled by the dutch.As a verb clove is
(cleave).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
*clove
English
Etymology 1
An alteration of (etyl) (m), from the first component of (etyl) . (wikipedia clove)Noun
- Seven pounds make a clove', 2 '''cloves''' a stone, 2 stone a tod 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word '''cloves ; it calls them ' ''claves'' or ''nails .' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
- By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.
