sepal
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By mutating genes that control polyploidy in the mustardlike plant Arabidopsis thaliana, she and her team discovered that if the sepal had too few polyploid cells, it was stiff and upright and blooming was impeded.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023
Goethe recognized that all the parts of a flower, from pistil to sepal, are modified leaves.
From Nature • Aug. 5, 2019
The vascular bundles sometimes form a prominent rib, which indicates the middle of the sepal; at other times they form several ribs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Caudata.—Upper sepal light yellow dotted with red; lower purplish rose, marbled with white.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
The yellow ground colour shows itself only in a few narrow streaks upon sepal and petal, and in the base of the lip.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
