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(botany)petal (one of the component parts of the corolla of a flower)
1883, Всеволод Гаршин, chapter V, in Красный цветок; English translation from A Red Flower, Philadelphia: Brown Brothers, 1911:
При первом взгляде сквозь стеклянную дверь алые лепестки привлекли его внимание, и ему показалось, что он с этой минуты вполне постиг, что именно должен он совершить на земле.
Pri pervom vzgljade skvozʹ stekljannuju dverʹ alyje lepestki privlekli jevo vnimanije, i jemu pokazalosʹ, što on s etoj minuty vpolne postig, što imenno dolžen on soveršitʹ na zemle.
At his first glance through the glass door the red petals had attracted his attention, and it now seemed to him that he had fulfilled that which he was to accomplish on earth.
lobe (an identifiable segment of an antenna radiation pattern)
PFM-1 mine (Soviet and Russian scatterable high explosive anti-personnel land mine)
