Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, borne upon or opposite to a sepal: applied to stamens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Growing on the sepals or adnate to them.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Growing on the
sepals oradnate to them.
Etymologies
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epi- + sepalous
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Examples
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( "Bluthendiagramme, II., page 482) the longer stamens may be either epipetalous or episepalous in this family.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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