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
Its colour of sepal and petal is palest mauve, the tube prettily lined and mottled with pale yellow; labellum, gamboge-yellow in the throat, fading towards the edge, and a pale crimson tip.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
Like that above in petal and sepal, but paler.
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.
