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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..

Epigynous :: Epigynous (a.) Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk..

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

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

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

Monomerous :: Monomerous (a.) Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil..

Fuchsia :: Fuchsia (n.) A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation..

Sepaloid :: Sepaloid (a.) Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx..

Phyllous :: Phyllous (a.) Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs..

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

Induplicative :: Induplicative (a.) Having induplicate sepals or petals in aestivation.

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

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

Gamosepalous :: Gamosepalous (a.) Formed of united sepals; monosepalous.

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

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..

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..

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

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

Sepal :: Sepal (n.) A leaf or division of the calyx.

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