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

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..

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

Sepaled :: Sepaled (a.) Having one or more sepals.

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

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

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..

Monosepalous :: Monosepalous (a.) Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Polysepalous :: Polysepalous (a.) Having the sepals separate from each other.

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

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

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

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

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

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