Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, metamorphosis or change of petals or other organs into sepals or sepaloid organs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.
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- noun botany The
metamorphosis of otherfloral organs intosepals orsepaloid bodies.
Etymologies
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sepal + Ancient Greek form.
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Examples
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The flower of the St. Valèry apple, already alluded to under the head of sepalody, might equally well be placed here.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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For these reasons the cruciata character may be considered as a case of sepalody of the petals, or of the petals being partly converted into sepals.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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