Definitions for sepal

sepal se·pal

Spelling: [see-puh l]
IPA: /ˈsi pəl/

Sepal is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in sepal (aelps).

Definitions for sepal

noun

  1. one of the individual leaves or parts of the calyx of a flower.

Origin of sepal

New Latin sepalum (1790), irregular coinage based on Greek sképē covering and Latin petalum petal

Examples for sepal

Large, very broad of sepal and petal, pale yellow, blotched and spotted with brown.

It is thus used of the edge of the disk of the sun or moon, of the expanded part of a petal or sepal in botany, &c.

In one flower of the last-named species the perianth consisted of one sepal only, and one lip-like petal placed opposite to it.

White or palest rose of sepal and petal, the latter marked with purplish lines at the base.

The colour of sepal and petal pink, the throat yellow, the spreading disc magenta-crimson.

In other flowers the sepals have grown together so they appear to be only one sepal.

Petal and sepal are ‘stone-colour,’ warmed, one cannot say even tinged, with crimson.

Harrisoniae in colour and size of sepal and petal; in general shape and in the hues of the labellum after L. purpurata.

White of sepal and petal, with the vast magenta-crimson lip of Hardyana.

Word Value for sepal
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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