Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling a sepal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a sepal, or distinct part of a calyx.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.
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- adjective botany Resembling a
sepal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling or characteristic of a sepal
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the flower in question there are neither stamens nor petals, unless the second or inner of sepals be considered as sepaloid petals (fig. 152).
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Moquin has given an explanation of the St. Valery Apples, wherein the petals are sepaloid, the stamens absent, and where there is a double row of carpels, by supposing these peculiarities to be due to "a prolification combined with penetration and fusion of two or more flowers," but it is surely more reasonable to conceive a second row of carpels placed above the first by the prolongation of the central part of the axis.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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-- Flower of St. Valèry apple, with sepaloid petals.]
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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