lepal

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λεπίς (lepís, “scale (of a fish); flake”); compare French lépale.

Noun

lepal (plural lepals)

  1. (botany, obsolete) A sterile transformed stamen.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lepal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Estonian

Noun

lepal

  1. adessive singular of lepp

Volapük

Etymology

le- (“grand”) +‎ pal (“parent”)

Noun

lepal (nominative plural lepals)

  1. grandparent

Declension

declension of lepal
singular plural
nominative lepal lepals
genitive lepala lepalas
dative lepale lepales
accusative lepali lepalis
vocative 1 o lepal! o lepals!
predicative 2 lepalu lepalus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Hyponyms

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