Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having the sepals united by their edges: more properly gamosepalous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany having all
sepals united
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word monosepalous.
Examples
-
Adesmy, moreover, was by the Belgian savant said to be homologous when it occurred between members of the same whorl, _e. g._ between the sepals of an ordinary monosepalous calyx, or heterologous when the separation took place between members of different whorls, as when the calyx is detached from the ovary, &c.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
-
The complete leaf development shows itself more frequently among the monosepalous plants than in the polysepalous ones, as shown even in the subjoined list of species.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
-
Pinguicula, "Qy. two-lipped? it is monopetalous, and monosepalous, the calyx and corolla being each all in one piece."
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.