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Definition of Sepals
1. sepal [n] - See also: sepal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sepals
Literary usage of Sepals
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 (1917)
"Plant about 2 ft., with Ivs. divided to the base and the divisions lobed and
toothed: fls. yellow, with 5 spreading veined ovate sepals; petals 10-12, ..."
2. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"(Tribe III.) 3 sepals as permanent аз the stamens. Fruit follicular. (Tribe IV.)
3 sepals caducous sooner than the stamens. ..."
3. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Styles 3-5, opposite the sepals. Capsule 1-celled, opening by twice as many valves
... petals longer than the sepals. — Kocky woods in the upper districts. ..."
4. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"Involucre of 2 or more opposite or whorled green leaves ranch sepals 6 or more
... sepals 4-20. Pistils very many in a close head (or fewer in one species), ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Ground color of the fls. white; sepals and petals spotted with purple; labellum
deep purple. ... sepals and petals creamy white, heavily spotted with brown; ..."
6. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"sepals 6, the outer spreading, the inner enlarging and appressed to the triangular
... sepals 4 to ti, equal, appressed to the triangular or lenticular ..."
7. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"Lvs. ovate or elliptic-ovate, acuminate, sparingly hairy: sepals dentate, ovate
or broadly ovate, "hite and pink, or white changing to pink. ..."
8. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"The durk colour when dry, long narrow acuminate leaves and narrow sepals distinguish
typical specimens. It is well described by Roxburgh and figured in his ..."
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