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Definition of Sepalous
1. a. Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.
Definition of Sepalous
1. Adjective. (botany) Having, or relating to, sepals. ¹
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Definition of Sepalous
1. sepal [adj] - See also: sepal
Medical Definition of Sepalous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sepalous
Literary usage of Sepalous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... therefore Syn- sepalous for a similar calyx. It is perhaps a more apt term
than gamopetalous, and of the same etj-mological signification ; but the ..."
2. Flora of the southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"Calyx 5-sepalous. Utricle indehiscent. Staminate flowers solitary, sessile in
... Calyx of the Staminate flower 5-sepalous, of the pistillate flower none. ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"The cup-shaped or tubular receptacle is covered externally by the tube of the
3-16-sepalous calyx, the segments of which project beyond it and alternate ..."
4. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Calyx 3-6-cleft,or 3 - 6-sepalous, persistent. Stamens 4-12, inserted on the base of
... Stipules sheathing * Calyx 5 - 0-sepalous, the inner sepals erect, ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1841)
"According as the calyx is divided into parts, it has received designations
expressive of their number, the term sepalous, with a Greek numeral prefixed, ..."