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Sepalous :: Sepalous (a.) Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal..

Valvate :: Valvate (a.) Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in vernation..

Lamina :: Lamina (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower..

Tetrasepalous :: Tetrasepalous (a.) Having four sepals.

Sepalody :: Sepalody (n.) The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.

Disepalous :: Disepalous (a.) Having two sepals; two-sepaled.

Limb :: Limb (n.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade..

Triseralous :: Triseralous (a.) Having three sepals, or calyx leaves..

Grain :: Grain (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4..

Orchidaceous :: Orchidaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order (Orchidaceae) of endogenous plants of which the genus Orchis is the type. They are mostly perennial herbs having the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundred spec

Pentamerous :: Pentamerous (a.) Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils..

Sepaline :: Sepaline (a.) Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals..

Antisepalous :: Antisepalous (a.) Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf..

Oppositisepalous :: Oppositisepalous (a.) Placed in front of a sepal.

Syntactic :: Synsepalous (a.) Having united sepals; gamosepalous.

Episepalous :: Episepalous (a.) Growing on the sepals or adnate to them.

Grained :: Grained (a.) Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers..

Hypogynous :: Hypogynous (a.) Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant..

Helmet :: Helmet (n.) The hood-formed upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon..

Oligosepalous :: Oligosepalous (a.) Having few sepals.

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