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Definition of Sepaloid
1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of a sepal.
Definition of Sepaloid
1. a. Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.
Definition of Sepaloid
1. Adjective. (botany) Resembling a sepal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sepaloid
1. sepal [adj] - See also: sepal
Medical Definition of Sepaloid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sepaloid
Literary usage of Sepaloid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"But besides the usual sepaloid and petaloid form and structure of the perianth-
leaves, there occur other considerable deviations from the ordinary foliar ..."
2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Floral-leaves in one or two whorls; all sepaloid, all petaloid, or (in a few
cases) the outer whorl sepaloid and the inner whorl ..."
3. Proceedings of the Essex Institute by Essex Institute (1868)
"Male flowers: Perianth segments 2 or more, the exterior usually 2, sepaloid,
opposite, valvate, the interior petaloid, imbricated, or none. ..."
4. An Elementary Course of Botany: Structural, Physiological, and Systematic by Arthur Henfrey, Maxwell Tylden Masters (1878)
"212), and, moreover, petaloid or sepaloid It is reduced to the lowest state in
the Poplar (fig. 213), where il is a mere membranous cup ; and it is absent ..."
5. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"The sepaloid segments are readily distinguished by shape as well as by position.
The long orange filament bears anthers heavily loaded with pollen and the ..."
6. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"... and petaloid in both series : sometimes they are all sepaloid (eg ... those of
the external whorl are sepaloid, those of the internal petaloid (e.'j. ..."
7. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"... and petaloid in both series : sometimes they are all sepaloid (eg ...
more rarely those of the external whorl are sepaloid, those of the internal ..."
8. Proceedings of the Essex Institute by Essex Institute (1871)
"Male flowers : Perianth segments 2 or more, the exterior usually 2, sepaloid,
opposite, valvate, the interior petaloid, imbricated, or none. ..."
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