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Definition of Perigones
1. perigone [n] - See also: perigone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perigones
Literary usage of Perigones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1845)
"The perigones are quite free to the very base, and distinct, ... sessile at the
base of the perigones and quite unconnected with either of them. ..."
2. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"... with or without perigones, are solitary: more frequently they are in groups.
Whether solitary or grouped, they may have a further envelope composed of ..."
3. With the Trees by Maud Going (1903)
"These dwindling flower bells (perigones) seem reminiscences of a distant time
when the other cup-bearers used to set their seed as the chestnut does still, ..."
4. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1908)
"[The fruit characters of seed-like achenes are recognised in the presence of
stigmatic scars, traces of perigones, more complex coverings, &c.] see p. 114. ..."
5. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"The sweet, fleshy portion of the edible Fig is developed from the hollowed axis
of the inflorescence together with the perigones of the individual flowers. ..."
6. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"Were it not for the dense inflorescence and bright scarlet perigones, one could
easily mistake it for Santalum ellipticum of Oahu, which it, in reality, ..."
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