sepal
IPA: sˈɛpʌɫ
noun
- (botany) One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when the sepals in a plant's calyx are not fused into a single structure.
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Examples of "sepal" in Sentences
- The lamina or expanded portion of a monopetalous corolla or of a petal or sepal.
- Sanders, singular in the inequality of the calyx and the great development of the posticous sepal.
- Also he only mentioned one Federal position in his sepal about how it would be tough to win a primary.
- The sepal is the outermost, green, leaf-like floral organ, which acts defensively to enclose and protect the developing reproductive structures.
- Leaf, sepal, petal, etc., much as they differ outwardly, yet showed themselves to him as manifestations of one and the same spiritual archetype.
- "The green thing on the back of a rose is the calyx and each of its leaflets is called a sepal," said Ethel Brown by way of fixing the definition firmly in her mind.
- In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf, then to another leaf, with a power of transforming the leaf into radicle, stamen, pistil, petal, bract, sepal, or seed.
- Thus we may come across a rose, an outer petal of which appears in the form of a leaf of the calyx (sepal), or one of the sepals is found to have grown into an ordinary rose leaf.
- The calyx of five sepals is very large, whence the specific name, and each sepal is nearly round and cupped, whence the old common name, "Cup St. John's Wort"; the five petals are 2in. long and widely apart; stamens very numerous, long, thready, and arranged in tufts.
- Again, another fable says, with respect to the five petals and the five sepals of the Pansy, two of which petals are plain in colour, whilst each has a single sepal, the three other petals being gay of hue, one of these (the largest of all) having two sepals; that the Pansy represents a family of husband, wife, and four daughters, two of the latter being step-children of the wife.
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