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
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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.