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

Monosepalous :: Monosepalous (a.) Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous..

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

Polysepalous :: Polysepalous (a.) Having the sepals separate from each other.

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..

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

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

Monomerous :: Monomerous (a.) Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil..

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

Helmet :: Helmet (n.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon..

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

Sepalody :: Sepalody (n.) The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.

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

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..

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..

Limb :: Limb (n.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade..

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

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

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