sepals
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pəl noun Botany.
one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.
Origin:
< Neo-Latin sepalum (1790), irregular coinage based on Greek sképē covering and Latin petalum petal
< Neo-Latin sepalum (1790), irregular coinage based on Greek sképē covering and Latin petalum petal
Related forms
se·paled, se·palled, adjective
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| —n | |
| any of the separate parts of the calyx of a flower | |
| [C19: from New Latin sepalum: sep-, from Greek skepē a covering + -alum, from New Latin petalum | |
| 'sepalled | |
| —adj | |
| sepalous | |
| —adj | |
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Sepals
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Word Origin & History
sepal
"leaf of the calyx," 1821, from Fr. sépal, from Mod.L. sepalum (H.J. de Necker, 1790), coined from L. separatus "separate" + petalum "petal."
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Science Dictionary
sepal  (sē'pəl) Pronunciation Key
One of the usually separate, green parts that surround and protect the flower bud and extend from the base of a flower after it has opened. Sepals tend to occur in the same number as the petals and to be centered over the petal divisions. In some species sepals are colored like petals, and they can even be indistinguishable from petals, as in the lilies (in what are called tepals). In some groups, such as the poppies, the sepals fall off after the flower bud opens. See more at flower. |
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Example sentences
The upper two petals are shorter and broader than the sepals.
The first basic thing is that they all have three sepals and three petals.
When they bloom, the stamens grow up between and above the sepals to release pale yellow pollen.
Fruit infections appear to result from expansion of lesions on the sepals and peduncle.
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