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Definition of Sepal
1. Noun. One of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower.
Definition of Sepal
1. n. A leaf or division of the calyx.
Definition of Sepal
1. Noun. (botany) One of the component parts of the calyx, when this consists of separate (not fused) parts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sepal
1. one of the individual leaves of a calyx [n -S] : SEPALED, SEPALINE, SEPALLED, SEPALOID, SEPALOUS [adj]
Medical Definition of Sepal
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sepal
Literary usage of Sepal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Fls. clear citron-yellow, except dorsal sepal, which is clear green at base, ...
Sanders: fls. clear greenish yellow, the dorsal sepal with a few indistinct ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"dorsal sepal oblong, acute, pale yellow with red veins; lower sepal ovate,
subacute, shorter than the lip; petals longer than the sepals, strap-shaped, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Flowers in which the number of parts sepal is next the axis, ... A plane passing
through the anterior and posterior sepal and through the floral axis is ..."
4. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1900)
"P. insigne alone predominates in the, upper sepal; P. insigne and P. villosum
together preponderate in the petals ; and P. ..."
5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1860)
"The large superior sepal is cordiform, greenish white, ... The third sepal, or
labellum, is very large, of a brownish green, reticulated with purple. ..."
6. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... sepal» lance-oblong, rather obtuse, often slightly emarginate, hairy, ...
about twice as long as the sepal«. Stamens as long as the sepals. ..."
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