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Orchidaceous :: Orchidaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidaceae) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred spec

Oligosepalous :: Oligosepalous (a.) Having few sepals.

Epigynous :: Epigynous (a.) Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk..

Fuchsia :: Fuchsia (n.) A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation..

Tetrasepalous :: Tetrasepalous (a.) Having four sepals.

Disepalous :: Disepalous (a.) Having two sepals; two-sepaled.

Oppositisepalous :: Oppositisepalous (a.) Placed in front of a sepal.

Gamosepalous :: Gamosepalous (a.) Formed of united sepals; monosepalous.

Induplicative :: Induplicative (a.) Having induplicate sepals or petals in aestivation.

Sepaline :: Sepaline (a.) Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals..

Lamina :: Lamina (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower..

Pentamerous :: Pentamerous (a.) Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils..

Grained :: Grained (a.) Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers..

Triseralous :: Triseralous (a.) Having three sepals, or calyx leaves..

Sepalous :: Sepalous (a.) Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal..

Grain :: Grain (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4..

Sepal :: Sepal (n.) A leaf or division of the calyx.

Sepaled :: Sepaled (a.) Having one or more sepals.

Antisepalous :: Antisepalous (a.) Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf..

Episepalous :: Episepalous (a.) Growing on the sepals or adnate to them.

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