萼片(がくへん)

がくへん
noun
sepal
technicalplant-flowerscience
1. sepal
One of the small leaf-like segments that together form the calyx of a flower. Sepals wrap the bud before it opens and usually stay attached, green and inconspicuous, behind the petals.
萼片(がくへん)が五(ご)枚(まい)ある。
It has five sepals.
この花(はな)の萼片(がくへん)は緑色(みどりいろ)で目立(めだ)たない。
The sepals of this flower are green and inconspicuous.
萼片(がくへん)が開(ひら)くと、中(なか)から白(しろ)い花(はな)びらが見(み)えてきた。
When the sepals opened, white petals came into view inside.

A botanical term, used in textbooks and plant descriptions rather than everyday conversation. The individual segment is the 萼片(がくへん); the whole ring of them is the 萼(がく).

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Related: 萼(がく) (calyx; the sepals as a whole)
Compare: 花(はな)びら (petal)
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