(botany) The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.

(neurology) A form of epilepsy where the seizures are characterized as minor, the person becomes vacant or unaware, but not involving spasms and unconsciousness. These seizures are usually brief, lasting up to 30 seconds, and may include twitching. A formal medical term would be absence seizures.

(law) Someone who presents a petition to a court. / Someone who presents a petition to some person in authority.

(idiomatic) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing.

Alternative form of Saint Petersburg / A federal city of Russia, formerly Petrograd and Leningrad / A city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States.

An independent city in Virginia, United States. / A census-designated place, the borough seat of Petersburg Borough, Alaska. / A city, the county seat of Menard County, Illinois.

(management) The theory that people in an organization tend to rise (be promoted) to the level of their incompetence.

(botany) Having or with petals.

simple past tense and past participle of petal

(botany) Having petals.