Meaning & use
Tepals
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The individual segments of a flower's outer whorl when the sepals and petals look alike and cannot be easily told apart.
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In tulips, the tepals are the six colorful segments that form the showy part of the flower.
Botanists count the tepals rather than petals when describing a lily's bloom.
A note on using this word
The term blends 'petal' and 'sepal,' coined for flowers such as lilies and tulips where the two structures cannot be distinguished.
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