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- noun Plural form of
sepal .
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Examples
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The colour of its row of sepals is nearly matching the turquoise of the woodwork around the window and the door.
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The flowers are 2in. to 3in. across, sepals pointed, overlapping for about half their length, and well expanded; their outsides are of a purplish colour, which extends along the stalk; the inner surface of the sepals is a yellowish green, the whole being suffused with a metallic hue or "bloom"; the stamens and anthers are a creamy white, the petals short and apple-green.
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These six leaves constitute the perigone of the flower; the three outer are called sepals, the inner ones petals.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The calyx, which is flat, green, and hairy, is divided into ten parts, called sepals, and there are five petals; the stamens, which are very numerous, and grow out of the calyx, are placed in a crowded ring round the pistil.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 Various 1836
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Angiosperm flowers have a ring of modified leaves called sepals that protect the growing flower bud.
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Angiosperm flowers have a ring of modified leaves called sepals that protect the growing flower bud.
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The sepals are the green-margined ones and the flatter, whiter ones are indeed the petals.
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The sepals are the green-margined ones and the flatter, whiter ones are indeed the petals.
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The sepals are the green-margined ones and the flatter, whiter ones are indeed the petals.
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The sepals are the green-margined ones and the flatter, whiter ones are indeed the petals.
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