Definition of Sepaline

1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of a sepal.

Exact synonyms: Sepaloid
Partainyms: Sepal, Sepal

Definition of Sepaline

1. a. Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.

Definition of Sepaline

1. Adjective. (botany) Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sepaline

1. sepal [adj] - See also: sepal

Medical Definition of Sepaline

1. Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sepaline

sentry duty
sentry go
sents
senvies
senvy
senza
senza sordini
senza sordino
sepad
sepadded
sepadding
sepads
sepak takraw
sepal
sepaled
sepaline (current term)
sepalled
sepalody
sepaloid
sepalous
sepals
separabilities
separability
separable
separable affix
separable affixes
separable verb
separable verbs
separableness
separablenesses

Literary usage of Sepaline

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Amaryllidaceae: Preceded by an Attempt to Arrange the Monocotyledonous by William Herbert (1837)
"Upper sepaline filament shorter. 17. Versicolor.—Bot. Mag. 51. 2485. Leaves \ inch wide, above a foot long, acute ; scape, spathe, and perianth at first ..."

2. Proceedings of the Horticultural Society of London by Horticultural Society of London (1861)
"[The form in this case was symmetrical, constituting an erect triangle, the three outer or sepaline divisions heing placed at equal distances, ..."

3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1862)
"... the markings being more crowded and confluent toward the ends of the sepaline segment, so as to form richly colored variegated tips. ..."

4. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1866)
"Hues long; lobes exceedingly short and broad, shorter, quite free ; filaments of the sepaline ones filiform ; those of the ..."

5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The first sepal appears upon the side next the inflorescence-axis, and then in progression anteriorly the subsequent sepaline primordia. ..."

6. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1884)
"Petals 2-4, small, 2 dorsal with spurs within the sepaline spur, 2 lateral spurless or 0. Stamens many. Follicles 1-5. Seeds many, testa coriaceous wrinkled ..."

7. Photography...: The Watkins Manual of Exposure and Development by Alfred Watkins (1919)
"PRICES Per Tube (Powder) $0.20 Per Carton (Tablets) 35 Beautiful Sepia Tones are easily and quickly obtained with sepaline Tablets on all developing and ..."

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