sepal
Example Sentences
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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
Harrisoniae in colour and size of sepal and petal; in general shape and in the hues of the labellum after L. purpurata.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
Imschootiana is huge even above its fellows, for a flower may be nine inches across; the colour of sepal and petal mauve, with a crimson-purple lip of splendour beyond conception.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
Mrs. R. H. Measures is best of all—a famous variety—white of sepal and petal.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
