Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, relating to a sepal or sepals; having the nature of a sepal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.
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- adjective botany Relating to, or having the nature of,
sepals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling or characteristic of a sepal
Etymologies
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sepal + -ine?
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Examples
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It is probable that in many of these cases the so-called inferior ovary is partly axial partly foliar, _i. e._, sepaline, and partly carpellary in its nature.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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