Sepal

Word SEPAL
Character 5
Hyphenation se pal
Pronunciations /ˈsiːp(ə)l/

Definitions and meanings of "Sepal"

What do we mean by sepal?

One of the usually green leaflike structures composing the outermost part of a flower. Sepals often enclose and protect the bud and may remain after the fruit forms. noun

In botany, a calyx-leaf; one of the individual leaves or parts that make up the calyx, or outer circle of floral envelops. See calyx, cut in preceding column, and cuts under antisepalous and dimerous. noun

A leaf or division of the calyx. noun

One of the component parts of the calyx, when this consists of separate (not fused) parts. noun

One of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower noun

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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The word "sepal" in example sentences

"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. ❋ Unknown (1903)

The sepal is the outermost, green, leaf-like floral organ, which acts defensively to enclose and protect the developing reproductive structures. ❋ Adrienne H. K. Roeder Et Al. (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The lamina or expanded portion of a monopetalous corolla or of a petal or sepal. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Also he only mentioned one Federal position in his sepal about how it would be tough to win a primary. ❋ Unknown (2004)

With reference to _Mussaenda_, C. Morren held the view that the petal-like sepal was really a bract adherent to the calyx, and incorporating with itself one of the calycine lobes -- "soudée au calice et ayant dévorée, en englobant dans sa propre masse, un lobe calicinal." ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Leaf, sepal, petal, etc., much as they differ outwardly, yet showed themselves to him as manifestations of one and the same spiritual archetype. ❋ Ernst Lehrs (N/A)

Thus, if, in an orchidaceous plant, a sepal be displaced from any cause, or a petal be twisted out of its natural position to occupy the place of an absent sepal, that petal will be sepal-like in form, and _vice versâ_. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Sanders, singular in the inequality of the calyx and the great development of the posticous sepal. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

The position of the spur in a line with the posterior sepal has led many botanists to consider it as a process of that sepal, but the fact of its being situated within the insertion of the petals is conclusive as to its receptacular origin. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

The base of the bracteoid sepal is filled with a gelatinous, sweet, transparent, unicoloured .5 fluid. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

Moreover, the anteposed sepal is exactly like the other, has a good midrib and an entire point. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

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. ❋ Ernst Lehrs (N/A)

It is curious to observe in these flowers how precisely one sepal occupies the position of the labellum, and how the lateral petals are displaced from the position they usually occupy, so as to form a regular flower, the segments of which decussate, thus giving rise to a species of regular peloria. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

In the flowers exhibited the supernumerary spur (as if to show its want of connection with any sepal) was placed exactly between a lateral sepal and one of the anterior sepals, sometimes on the one side of the flower and sometimes on the other. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

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. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

Kirschleger, however, has recorded the existence of a cirrhose sepal in ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

_Dendrobium nobile_, a diagram of which is given at fig. 48, the uppermost sepal was coherent with one of the lateral ones, and at the same time diminished in size, and, as it were, dragged out of position. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

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. ❋ John Wood (N/A)

S standing for sepal, P for petal, L for lip, ST for stamen; then the dislocated form may be represented thus: ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

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