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Definition of Perigyny
1. the state of being situated on a cuplike organ surrounding the pistil [n -NIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perigyny
Literary usage of Perigyny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"This is called perigyny if this cup-like axis does not grow fast to the pistil
that it surrounds ... perigyny is present in the lower members of the order, ..."
2. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"Thus certain flowers of the legume family are bilaterally symmetrical and
dorsiventral, but there is no perigyny or ..."
3. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"Thus certain flowers of the legume family are bilaterally symmetrical and
dorsiventral, but there is no perigyny or ..."
4. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"This arrangement is called perigyny. (The word signifies around the gynoecium.
... perigyny is somewhat intermediate; it is commonly found in flowers of the ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Now commonly used to denote the cup- shaped receptacle on which calyx, petals
and stamens are inserted in cases of perigyny, ..."
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