Word Meanings - SEPAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A leaf or division of the calyx. Note: When the calyx consists of but one part, it is said to be monosepalous; when of two parts, it is said to be disepalous; when of a variable and indefinite number of parts, it is said to be polysepalous; when

Additional info about word: SEPAL

A leaf or division of the calyx. Note: When the calyx consists of but one part, it is said to be monosepalous; when of two parts, it is said to be disepalous; when of a variable and indefinite number of parts, it is said to be polysepalous; when of several parts united, it is properly called gamosepalous.

Related words: (words related to SEPAL)

• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• VARIABLENESS
  The quality or state of being variable; variability. James i.
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• INDEFINITE
  Too numerous or variable to make a particular enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower, and the like. Also, indeterminate. Indefinite article , the word a or an, used with nouns to denote any one of a common or general class. --
• NUMBERLESS
  Innumerable; countless.
• VARIABLE
  1. Having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity. 2. Liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant;
• INDEFINITENESS
  The quality of being indefinite.
• DIVISIONOR
  One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
• NUMBER
  The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of
• NUMBERS
  of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
• DIVISION
  The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state
• CALYX
  The covering of a flower. See Flower. Note: The calyx is usually green and foliaceous, but becomes delicate and petaloid in such flowers as the anemone and the four-o'clock. Each leaf of the calyx is called a sepal.
• NUMBERER
  One who numbers.
• POLYSEPALOUS
  Having the sepals separate from each other.
• INDEFINITELY
  In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely. If the world be indefinitely extended, that is, so far as no human intellect can fancy any bound of it. Ray.
• DISEPALOUS
  Having two sepals; two-sepaled.
• MONOSEPALOUS
  Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous. Note: The most recent writers restrict this term to flowers having a solarity sepal, and use gamosepalous for a calyx formed by several
• NUMBEROUS
  Numerous. Drant.
• GONOCALYX
  The bell of a sessile gonozooid.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• OUTNUMBER
  To exceed in number.
• ANTENUMBER
  A number that precedes another. Bacon.
• MISNUMBER
  To number wrongly.
• INDIVISION
  A state of being not divided; oneness. Bp. Hall.
• UNVARIABLE
  Invariable. Donne.
• NEMATOCALYX
  One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidæ. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.