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depetal, v.|diːˈpɛtəl|
[f. de- II. 2 + petal.]
trans. To remove the petals from (a flower). So deˈpetalled ppl. a.
1936D. E. Gascoyne Man's Life is this Meat 42 The depetalled flower. 1936L. MacNeice Let. 16 Aug. in Auden & MacNeice Lett. fr. Iceland (1937) iii. 33 We like to dream of..a lazy music hour by hour depetalling the daisy. 1949E. Bowen Heat of Day xi. 202 Children..engaged innocently on some act of destruction—depetalling daisies, puffing at dandelion clocks. |