Word Meanings - SEPALOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.

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• 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
• SEPALOUS
  Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• SEPALOID
  Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.
• SEPALED
  Having one or more sepals.
• SEPALINE
  Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.
• 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.
• SEPALODY
  The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.
• DIVISIONOR
  One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
• 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.
• GONOCALYX
  The bell of a sessile gonozooid.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• EPISEPALOUS
  Growing on the sepals or adnate to them.
• TETRASEPALOUS
  Having four sepals.
• OLIGOSEPALOUS
  Having few sepals.
• ANTISEPALOUS
  Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.
• INDIVISION
  A state of being not divided; oneness. Bp. Hall.
• OPPOSITISEPALOUS
  Placed in front of a sepal.
• GAMOSEPALOUS
  Formed of united sepals; monosepalous.
• NEMATOCALYX
  One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidæ. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.