I know that word, too. But it’s less familiar to me than codon.
Crossword puzzles, here.
I knew the word. I briefly worked in a flower shop. And we cut those off. The proprietor thought they made the flowers look raggedy.
Since flowers are plant sex organs, would that be like a circumcision?
This Florist was a right bitch about it.
She did hate men.
They’d come in wanting help ordering flowers and she’d be sweet as candy. As soon as they paid exorbitant amounts for roses and left she would talk so bad about these guys.
And scream at us pions to remove all the sepals and thorns.
She was a bad woman.
Ha. I thought it was just in case someone was still working on that particular Wordle and checked your post before realizing what it was about and saw the word.
Yep, from biology lessons. Sepals and petals.
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Learned it in grade school, somewhere around 4th or 5th grade. Also pistils and stamens and probably other stuff I’ve forgotten.
Never heard of it before. I don’t garden but I’m a voracious reader and do a lot of word games. I’m in the US, but I’ve never encountered a Wordle answer I didn’t know before.
This is the UK Wordle. I don’t think the US version would use this, and, as I mentioned above, it’s not in the original list of acceptable answer words (though it is acceptable as a guess.)
See, pistils and stamens I remember vividly. Not sepals.
Word puzzler here, it comes up commonly, but it’s not a word I’ve ever uttered in real life.
I remembered it was a flower part, but misremembered which part. I got it mixed up with the stamens.
Were you positive or negative about that?
Nope, and I do the NYT crossword everyday. I’ve never seen it, but I’m sure it’s been used before. I would consider it very esoteric, especially for US.
Heh. I was mostly negative about it.(I realize I mispelled pion/peon)
I think the OP should’ve included a poll so we don’t just see the self-selected sample of people who know the word. As for me, if I ever encountered it, I’ve forgotten—it was completely new to me. (I did know ‘codon’, though!)
Yeah, upthread I mentioned the NYTimes xword stats on the word. It appears on average just over once a year in the puzzle since 1994, last appearing in 2023 But its appearance is sporadic. It appeared twice in 2023, then not before that until 2020, then twice in 2016. The 80s seems to have been its heyday, with 35 appearances during the Eugene Maleska (crossword editor) era, equal to how many times its showed up in the totality of the Shortz era (1993-now).
I do not know the word sepal.
Yes, as said, part of a plant. I want to say it’s the green leaves of a young plant, but I’m not sure about that.
I remember it from high school. Saw it used in an article about hydrangeas recently. Also saw it in a crossword once as ’ Anagram for lapse’.
Yes, I knew it.