sepal
/ˈsɛp(ə)l/
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American sound/ˈsɛp(ə)l/
sepal
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- 2 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
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- Schwa vowel
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se - pal -> sepal
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- ‘The cocoa flower has five free sepals, five free petals, five staminodes, five stamens and an ovary of five united carpels.’
- ‘The formation of organs in the four whorls of a typical eudicotyledonous flower, consisting of sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels, requires many genes for proper organ and tissue development.’
- ‘Fruits of this species are glabrous achenes, with sepals modified into plumose bristles and are frequently wind-dispersed.’
- ‘Roots, stems, leaves, sepals, stigmas/styles, ovaries, and seeds were collected and frozen in liquid nitrogen.’
- ‘This, in turn was surrounded by several whorls of bracts that many homologize with petals and sepals in flowering plants.’
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