sepal in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ 'sepəl, 'si:pl ] ]
Examples
- Sepals are noticeable in spring to summer, when in flower.
- Each flower has lance-shaped green sepals at the base.
- Each has green or purplish bracts and sepals and no petals.
- It produces flowers with lavender petals and green or purple sepals.
- Flowers are borne in calyces of sepals coated in black hairs.
- The sepals are red and the corollas are red or purple.
- It is unusual in the genus in having distinctive serrate sepals.
- The sepals / bracts are longer than those of the spikelets.
- There are 5 narrow triangular, glabrous green sepals, long.
- After flowering, the sepal become heart-shaped and long.