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A leaf or division of the calyx.

Having one or more sepals.

Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.

The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.

Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.

Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.

Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.

Having two sepals; two-sepaled.

Growing on the sepals or adnate to them.

Formed of united sepals; monosepalous.

Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.

Having few sepals.

Placed in front of a sepal.

Having the sepals separate from each other.

Having united sepals; gamosepalous.

Having four sepals.

A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as certain concave and arched sepals or petals.

he ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.

A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.

A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.