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Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers.

Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant. Gray.

Having induplicate sepals or petals in æstivation.

The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower. Gray.

ating leaf of the water lily. [U. S.] Lowell. -- Tiger lily (Bot.), Lilium tigrinum, the sepals of which are blotched with black. -- Turk's-cap lily (Bot.) Lilium Martagon, a red lily with recurved sepals; also, the similar American lily, L. superbum. -- Water lily (Bot.), the Nymphæa, a plant with floating roundish…

Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil.

ng the stamens and pistils united in a single column, and normally three petals and three sepals, all adherent to the ovary. The flowers are curiously shaped, often resembling insects, the odd or lower petal (called the lip) being unlike the others, and sometimes of a strange and unexpected appearance. About one hundre…

f, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.

Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs.

Having three sepals, or calyx leaves.

Meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in æstivation, and of leaves in vernation.