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Definition of Perianth
1. Noun. Collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils.
Generic synonyms: Cover, Covering, Natural Covering, Plant Organ
Group relationships: Bloom, Blossom, Flower
Terms within: Corolla, Calyx
Specialized synonyms: Falls
Derivative terms: Chlamydeous
Definition of Perianth
1. n. The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.
Definition of Perianth
1. Noun. (botany) The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals). ¹
2. Noun. (context: botany bryology) The sterile, tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure in a leafy liverwort. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perianth
1. an outer covering of a flower [n -S]
Medical Definition of Perianth
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Perianth
Literary usage of Perianth
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 (1917)
"perianth crimson or scarlet, with a distinct basal blotch 44. linifolia 45. ...
perianth bright yellow, with obscure basal blotch or none 51. Bleber- cc. ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Capsule as long as the perianth or longer. Capsule much shorter than the perianth.
... Inner perianth parts setiform-acuminate. Stem creeping, floating ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"perianth orange-scarlet or red, with a dark brown, purplish or bluish black basal
blotch. ... The inner perianth segments rounded: outer acute at top 19. ..."
4. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"perianth tubular, 6-cleft, more or less cohering with the Ï- celled ovary.
Stamens 3 or 6: anthers adnate, introrse, 2-celled. Ovules mostly few, anatropous ..."
5. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"perianth none in fertile flowers, 2. Zostera. Naked ovaries and stamens alternate
in 2 vertical rows on the inner side of a ..."
6. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"perianth- segments glandular at the base, ovate or oblong. Stem glabrous. 9. ...
perianth-segments free from the ovary, their long claw* ..."
7. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Inner perianth-lobes not developed into wings in fruit; achenes granular. ...
Inner perianth-lobes in fruit without tubercles. Inner perianth-lobes in fruit ..."
8. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"on a stout peduncle as long as Ivs. or shorter; fls. white or suffused with
green (buds yellowish), numerous, erect, produced very late; perianth %in. or ..."
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