sepaloid

English

Etymology

From sepal +‎ -oid.

Adjective

sepaloid (comparative more sepaloid, superlative most sepaloid)

1. (botany) Resembling a sepal.

Noun

sepaloid (plural sepaloids)

1. A sepaloid structure in a flower.
   • 1997, Beat Ernst Leuenberger, Maihuenia: Monograph of a Patagonian Genus of Cactaceae, page 22:

     The outer sepaloids are triangular scale-like, thick, greenish or variously reddish-colored, and fleshy.

   • 2012, Kerr-McGee Oil and Gas Onshore LP (KMG), Greater Natural Buttes Draft Environmental Impact Statement, pages 3-84:

     The sepaloids and petaloids range in color from green to lavender to magenta .

Anagrams

• apsidole, elapoids, elasipod, episodal, opalised

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sépaloïde.

Adjective

sepaloid m or n (feminine singular sepaloidă, masculine plural sepaloizi, feminine and neuter plural sepaloide)

1. sepaloid

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	sepaloid		sepaloidă		sepaloizi	sepaloide
	definite	sepaloidul		sepaloida		sepaloizii	sepaloidele
genitive- dative	indefinite	sepaloid		sepaloide		sepaloizi	sepaloide
	definite	sepaloidului		sepaloidei		sepaloizilor	sepaloidelor