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When the calyx consists of but one part, it is said to be monosepalous; when of two parts, it is said to be disepalous; when of a variable and indefinite number of parts, it is said to be polysepalous; when of several parts united, it is properly called gamosepalous.

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Se"paled (?), a. (Bot.) Having one or more sepals.

Sep"al*ine (?), a. (Bot.) Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.

Se*pal"o*dy (?), n. [Sepal + Gr. &?;&?;&?; form.] (Bot.) The metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.

Sep"al*oid (?), a. [Sepal + - oid.] (Bot.) Like a sepal, or a division of a calyx.

Sep"al*ous (?), a. (Bot.) Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.

Sep`a*ra*bil"i*ty (?), n. Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

Sep"a*ra*ble (?), a. [L. separabilis: cf. F. séparable.] Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv.

Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold.

Boyle.

Sep"a*rate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Separated (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Separating.] [L. separatus, p. p. of separare to separate; pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. Sever.] 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

From the fine gold I separate the alloy.

Dryden.

Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me.

Gen. xiii. 9.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Rom. viii. 35.

2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.

3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.

Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called thaem.

Acts xiii. 2.

Separated flowers (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. Gray.

Sep"a*rate, v. i. To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.

Sep"a*rate (?), p. a. [L. separatus, p. p. ] 1. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.

Him that was separate from his brethren.

Gen. xlix. 26.

2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.