Definition of sepal

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

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Hypogynous :: Hypogynous (a.) Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant..
Sepaline :: Sepaline (a.) Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals..
Disepalous :: Disepalous (a.) Having two sepals; two-sepaled.
Grain :: Grain (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4..
Episepalous :: Episepalous (a.) Growing on the sepals or adnate to them.
Phyllous :: Phyllous (a.) Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs..
Induplicative :: Induplicative (a.) Having induplicate sepals or petals in aestivation.
Monosepalous :: Monosepalous (a.) Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous..
Monomerous :: Monomerous (a.) Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil..
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..
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..
Sepaled :: Sepaled (a.) Having one or more sepals.
Valvate :: Valvate (a.) Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in vernation..
Grained :: Grained (a.) Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers..
Lamina :: Lamina (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower..
Antisepalous :: Antisepalous (a.) Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf..
Oligosepalous :: Oligosepalous (a.) Having few sepals.
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..
Sepalous :: Sepalous (a.) Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal..
Triseralous :: Triseralous (a.) Having three sepals, or calyx leaves..
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