perigonium
Meanings
noun
- The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals); the perianth.
- The modified leaves around the antheridia in a bryophytic plant.
- The wall of the sporosac in a hydroid.
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Etymology
From peri- + -gonium.
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