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
Lily Measures.—A very large flower, white of sepal and petal.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
Petals and dorsal sepal pale yellow; lip and side sepals brightest deepest orange.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
Upper sepal hooded, covering the two long-clawed small petals.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
