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Sepal

Definition: Sepal

Sepal

Noun

1. One of the green parts that form the calyx of a flower.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sepal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)


Crosswords: Sepal

English words defined with "sepal": AntisepalousgreenhoodHabenaria hookeri, helmet orchid, Hooker's orchidMonomerous, MonosepalousOppositisepalousSepaloid, Sepalous. (references)
Etymologies containing "sepal": AntisepalousEpisepalousGamosepalousOligosepalous, OppositisepalousPolysepalousSynsepalousTetrasepalous, Triseralous. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Sepal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (sepal), Turkish (sepal).

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Specialty Definition: Sepal

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A sepal is one member or part of the calyx of a flower; it is the outer part of the perianth. The perianth comprises the sterile parts of a flower, consisting of inner and outer tepals that are usually differentiated into petals and sepals. The term tepal is usually applied when the petals and sepals are not differentiated. In a "typical" flower the sepals are green and lay under the petals, but there is considerable variation in form among the flowering plants.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sepal."

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Image Slideshow: Sepal

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sepal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  sepal

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sepal

Language Translations for "sepal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sepal, nëpetël. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чашелистче. (various references)

   

Danish

  

baegerblad. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kelkblad. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

verholehti. (various references)

   

French

  

sépale. (various references)

   

German

  

Kelchblatt. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σέπαλο. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

על" 'ביע. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csészelevél. (various references)

   

Italian

  

sepalo. (various references)

   

Manx

  

seepal. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

epalsay

   

Portuguese

  

sépala. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sepalã, foaie (lamina, leaf, page, sheet, skirt). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чашелистик. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

čašični listić. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sépalo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kalkblad, foderblad (scale leaf). (various references)

   

Thai

  

กลีบเลี้ยงของ"อก. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sepal, çanak yaprağı. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

чашолисток. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sepal

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

sepalum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sepal

Derivations

Words beginning with "sepal": sepaled, sepaline, sepalled, sepaloid, sepalous, sepals. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sepal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asempa, cepal, Csepel, depal, epal, Epala, Esnal, espa, Esplan, essal, Sahal, sapa, Satpal, seap, Seaql, sebil, secal, seepel, segal, sepa, sepac, sepak, sepan, separ, sepi, Sepik, seppa, Seppak, Seppelt, seppo, Sepuh, sepul, seral, serpa, Serpula, setal, sexal, shemaal, Shepsle, sibal, sipa, sival, spal, spald, Spall, speal, spearl, speel, stepel, Supalla. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sepal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lapse, leaps, pales, peals, pleas, salep, spale.

Words within the letters "a-e-l-p-s"

-1 letter: ales, alps, apes, apse, laps, lase, leap, leas, pale, pals, pase, peal, peas, plea, sale, salp, seal, slap, spae.

-2 letters: ale, alp, als, ape, asp, els, lap, las, lea, pal, pas, pea, pes, sae, sal, sap, sea, sel, spa.

-3 letters: ae, al, as, el, es, la, pa, pe.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-p-s"
 

+1 letter: alephs, appels, apples, asleep, aslope, elapse, espial, lapels, lapsed, lapser, lapses, lipase, maples, padles, palest, palets, panels, parles, passel, pastel, pearls, pedals, petals, places, plages, planes, plates, pleads, please, pleats, saleps, salpae, sample, sepals, septal, spales, splake, staple, tepals.

 

+2 letters: alipeds, alpines, amplest, ampules, aplites, apostle, appeals, applies, appulse, beclasp, beleaps, capless, caplets, capsule, carpels, chapels, clasped, clasper, cypsela, dapples, deposal, dewlaps, earlaps, elapids, elapsed, elapses, empales, enclasp, escalop, espanol, espials, exposal, felspar, hapless, impales, lampers, lapides, lapises, lappers, lappets, lapsers, leapers, lipases, napless, paddles, paellas, paisley, palaces, palates, paliest, pallets, palmers, palsied, palsies, palters, papules, parcels, parleys, paroles, parrels, parsley, passels, pastels, pedalos, pedlars, pelages, pelotas, peltast, persalt, perusal, phaseal, pineals, placers, placets, plagues, plaices, planers, planets, plaques, plashed, plasher, plashes, plaster, platens, platers, platies, players, pleased, pleaser, pleases, pleiads, pleuras, presale, psalmed, psalter, pulsate, rappels, reclasp, relapse, repeals, replans, replays, reposal, sampled, sampler, samples, sapless, scaleup, scalped, scalpel, scalper, sepaled, shapely, slapped, slapper, spackle, spalled, spaller, spancel, spangle, spaniel, sparely, sparkle, spatzle, special, specula, spelean, spheral, splakes, splayed, splenia, stapled, stapler, staples, talipes, upleaps, upscale.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sepal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 70 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01110000 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#112 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 0070 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5371826778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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