sepal

English

The flower at the left has freshly opened and its petals obscure its sepals. The flower in the centre is more mature, and some of the sepals are visible behind the damaged petals. On the right are older flowers that have dropped their petals, revealing the sepals surrounding the developing fruit.

Etymology

From French sépale, from New Latin sepalum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛp(ə)l/, /ˈsiːp(ə)l/

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• Rhymes: -iːpəl

Noun

sepal (plural sepals)

1. (botany) One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when the sepals in a plant's calyx are not fused into a single structure.

Related terms

• petal
• sepalar
• tepal

Translations

part of calyx

• Arabic: سَبَلَة f (sabala), كَأْسِيَّة f (kaʔsiyya)
• Bulgarian: чашели́стче n (čašelístče)
• Catalan: sèpal (ca) m
• Dutch: kelkblad (nl) n, sepaal m, sepalum n
• Finnish: verholehti (fi)
• French: sépale (fr) m
• German: Kelchblatt (de) n, Sepalum n
• Icelandic: bikarblað n
• Ido: sepalo (io)
• Italian: sepalo (it) m
• Japanese: 萼片 (がくへん, gakuhen)
• Kurdish:

  Southern Kurdish: پەپریک (peprîk)

• Maori: raukōpaki
• Polish: działka kielicha f
• Portuguese: sépala f
• Romanian: sepală (ro) f
• Russian: чашели́стик (ru) m (čašelístik)
• Spanish: sépalo (es) m
• Swedish: foderblad n, blomblad n
• Tagalog: tampok
• Turkish: çanak yaprak (tr)
• Ukrainian: чашолисто́к m (čašolystók)

Anagrams

• ALSEP, ELSPA, Lapes, Leaps, Pales, Peals, Slape, e-pals, lapse, leaps, lepas, pales, peals, pleas, salep, slape, spale

Estonian

Noun

sepal

1. adessive singular of sepp