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Definition of Peloric
1. a. Abnormally regular or symmetrical.
Definition of Peloric
1. Adjective. (botany of a flower) Having a mutation such that a normally asymmetric flower becomes radially symmetric ¹
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Definition of Peloric
1. peloria [adj] - See also: peloria
Medical Definition of Peloric
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Peloric
Literary usage of Peloric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"peloric forms have been of little significance In horticulture. See Keeble, Pellew
and Jones on inheritance of ..."
2. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"... flower of Calceolaria. the form usually assumed by the petals of the lower
lip that the condition is due. This is also obvious in peloric flowers of the ..."
3. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"In the peloric plants collected only a very few seeds were produced. The capsules
producing them were smaller than the normal capsules (Figs. 8, 9). ..."
4. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"The production of so many individuals of the ordinary kind by the crossing of
the common snapdragon with the peloric form, and the fact that a large number ..."
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