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sepal

[see-puhl] / ˈsi pəl /
NOUN
calyx
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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

Moreover, the anteposed sepal is exactly like the other, has a good midrib and an entire point.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Crispum Arthurianum.—A notable variety—very large, blush-white, with one enormous chocolate blot and two or three small spots on 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




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