Meanings of sepal in English

These outer leaves are called, all together, the calyx, and each one of them is called a sepal.

Whatever her soul was, her flesh was all girlhood in one flower of lithe stem, leaf, petal, sepal, and perfume.

S standing for sepal, P for petal, L for lip, ST for stamen; then the dislocated form may be represented thus:

P.S.-Doyou happen to know, when there are only four stamens, whether it is the petal or sepal-facerswhich are preserved?

I find that the pollen of the yellow petal-facing stamens produce more than twice as much seed as the pollen of the purple sepal-facing stamens.

The spikes of blue flowers give the plant its common name "monkshood" because the uppermost sepal is shaped like a helmet or a hood.

SEPALS.-Theleaves or segments of the calyx, or outermost envelope of an ordinary flower.

The flax green was just through, ungrown sepals and anthers still hiding their hint of blue.

Alq mutant plants were affected in reproductive development and their sepals were homeotically converted into fleshy fruit-like organs.

Grasses bear unique flowers lacking obvious petals and sepals in special inflorescence units, the florets and the spikelet.

Oozing from the nectaries at the base of the bud, viscous globules dot the edge of the sepals.

The histological and scanning electron microscope analyses revealed cell identity changes in both external and internal tissues of Alq sepals.

No pictures, but all the right words, especially Sepals 3, petal-like, the lowest in the form of a broad pouch .

Their green sepals drew back a little and the white tips of the flowers rose delicately to meet the open air.

He viewed cotyledons, and all the standard parts of flowers (sepals, petals, stamens and carpels), as modifications of a leaf archetype.

In fact, expression of regulatory genes controlling tomato fruit ripening was detected in Alq sepals at similar levels to those observed in mature fruits.