🇬🇧🇨🇳 sepal - 萼片 : English Lesson

Meaning of "sepal" ("萼片"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A sepal is one of the little parts that look like tiny green leaves at the bottom of a flower. When the flower is still a closed bud, the sepals wrap around it like a protective blanket to keep it safe. When the flower opens, the sepals usually stay underneath the petals, holding and supporting the flower like a little green cup.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

When the flower bloomed, the sepal stayed underneath like stage crew, holding everything up but getting none of the applause.

When the bud finally opened, the sepal probably sighed, “Great, now I’m just the chair and the petals are the celebrity sitting on me.”

The flower’s petals got all the attention, while the poor sepal stood in the back like, “Hello, I did all the babysitting.”

The sepal told the petal, “I kept you safe all winter,” and the petal replied, “Cool, now move, you’re in my glamour shot.”

In some flowers, the sepal is colorful and looks like a petal, secretly doing double duty as both bodyguard and fashion model.

She watched a green bud. She lifted a sepal and held it like a coin; another sepal clung, a sepal folded back, a sepal shivered as petal color showed, the last sepal fell away. The small flower opened. She smiled softly, proud the tiny sepal had kept the bloom safe.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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