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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

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

The colour of sepal and petal pink, the throat yellow, the spreading disc magenta-crimson.

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick

Like that above in petal and sepal, but paler.

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick




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