πέταλο — meaning in English

English meaning

• horseshoe noun A U-shaped metal shoe nailed to a horse's hoof for protection.
• petal noun One of the often colorful, leaf-like parts that make up a flower's bloom.

Senses

πέταλο is used for these senses in English:

• horseshoe The U-shaped shoe of a horse, now typically made of metal; by extension, a representation of this used to play the game horseshoes, hung as a luck charm, etc.
• lamina (botany) The flat expanded part of a foliage leaf or leaflet.
• lamina (skeleton) Either of two broad, flat plates of bone of a vertebra that is fused with and extends from the pedicle to the median line of the neural arch to form the base of the spinous process and that along with the pedicle forms the posterior part of the vertebral foramen.
• petal (botany) One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.

horseshoe — full definition

1. noun A U-shaped metal shoe nailed to a horse's hoof for protection.
2. noun Something shaped like this U, or one used as a good-luck charm.

Related Greek words