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Definition of: sepal
(sē′pəl) noun Bot.
One of the individual leaves of a calyx. [<F sépale <NL sepalum <L sep(aratus) separate + (pet)alum a petal]
—sep·a·line (sep′ə·lin, -līn), sep′a·lous adjective
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