This site uses cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the site, while others help to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. For more information, please see the ProZ.com privacy policy.
Cookie settings
  1. KudoZ™ Top
  2. German to English

geviertelte Blütenschalen

English translation: quartered flowers

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
German term or phrase:geviertelte Blütenschalen
English translation:quartered flowers
Entered by: Tanja Spath-Nagazi

13:32 Nov 5, 2003
German to English translations [PRO]
/ Botanik
German term or phrase: geviertelte Blütenschalen
Stark breitbuschig wachsende Rosensorte mit nostalgisch gefüllten und geviertelten Blütenschalen.
Tanja Spath-Nagazi
Germany
Local time: 12:38
Quartered flowers
Explanation:
Nostalgic, I think, because they are reminiscent of the old Bourbon roses, of which many had a flower head apparently divided into four. The blooms also tended to be a lot flatter than the roses of today, and they smelt - well, like the musk-rose does...
Selected response from:

David Moore (X)
Local time: 12:38
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4Quartered flowers
David Moore (X)
3 +1four-part petals
swisstell
4petals
gangels (X)


  

Answers


8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
geviertelte Blütenschalen
four-part petals


Explanation:
a suggestion (perhaps: quartered flower petals)

swisstell
Italy
Local time: 12:38
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in pair: 3377

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Monika Leit: I would say quartered
2 mins
  -> danke, Monika
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Quartered flowers


Explanation:
Nostalgic, I think, because they are reminiscent of the old Bourbon roses, of which many had a flower head apparently divided into four. The blooms also tended to be a lot flatter than the roses of today, and they smelt - well, like the musk-rose does...

David Moore (X)
Local time: 12:38
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 9672

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  cologne
8 mins
agree  Michele Johnson: Google confirms quartered flowers - that seems to be it.
19 mins
agree  Gisela Greenlee: quartered petals
26 mins
agree  Ellen Zittinger
4 hrs
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
petals


Explanation:
are Blütenschalen. In some cultures, rose petals are strewn in the path of newly marrieds

gangels (X)
Local time: 04:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in pair: 5559
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)



Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

Return to KudoZ list

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.

See also:
ProZ.com term search
Search millions of term translations
Close search
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search