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Definition of Tepals
1. tepal [n] - See also: tepal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tepals
Literary usage of Tepals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"Sepals and tepals oblong-acute or at least apiculate, the tepals sometimes
serrulate on one side near the top, all purplish, sometimes washed with green. ..."
2. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"On the first day of flowering (pre-dehiscent stage), the tepals open and the
filaments and anthers are exerted. Flowers remain in this condition until the ..."
3. Flora of the southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"Lateral tepals fringed an the keel. 3. ... t- Lateral tepals broadly winged, and
variously toothed or ..."
4. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1906)
"... capsule is conspicuously longer than the outer tepals, whereas the ellipsoid
capsule of Juncus Gerardi is usually about the same length as the tepals. ..."
5. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1889)
"Diffusely branched from the slender root ; stems filiform (6 -1 tí l' mg) ;
branches of the cyme diverging ; peduncles long ; tepals lanceolate, acuminate, ..."
6. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"... styles exserted: fr. ovoid, J^-^in. long, orange-red; tepals persistent. W.
China. WR 158 (form with few-fld. infl.). ..."
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