English Explanatory Dictionary

perigone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. perianth
  2. In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.
  3. A sac surrounding the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.

Word forms

perigone perigones

Etymology

From French périgone, doublet of perigonium.

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