peronia

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In Hydrozoa, a mantle-rivet; one of the hard gristly processes which connect the base of a tentacle with the marginal ring, as of a narcomedusan.
2. n. The typical genus of Peroniidæ. De Blainville, 1824. See onchidiidæ.
3. n. 2. A genus of dipterous insects.
4. n. A corruption of peonia, which see.