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Definition of Perianths
1. perianth [n] - See also: perianth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perianths
Literary usage of Perianths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"C. Kinds of perianths. staminate flower. plants without them; that is, ...
The more primitive perianths appear to be those whose parts are spirally ar- ..."
2. The First Book of Botany: Designed to Cultivate the Observing Powers of by Eliza Ann Youmans (1876)
"... petals should be recorded in the same terms used to describe leaves. EXERCISE XL.
Regular and Irregular Corollas and perianths. FIG. 186. • FIG. 187. ..."
3. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"The perianths in this specimen are nearly all falsely dorsal. ... in this about
one fourth of the perianths have become falsely dorsal or lateral. ..."
4. Manual of British Botany, Containing the Flowering Plants and Ferns by Charles Cardale Babington (1874)
"... ped. and perianths smooth, nut compressed and gibbous on one side or trigonous
its faces roundish acuminate smooth scarcely covered by the obscurely ..."
5. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914)
"... perianths from South America and Stephani thirteen. According to Spruce the
subgenus falls naturally into two groups: Clado- ..."
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