petal
petal
noun
/ˈpetl/
a delicate coloured part of a flower. The head of a flower is usually made up of several petals around a central part.
Topics Plants and trees C1]
Collocations
noun
flower
rose
Word Origin
early 18th cent.: from modern Latin petalum (in late Latin ‘metal plate’), from Greek petalon ‘leaf’, neuter (used as a noun) of petalos ‘outspread’.