Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
perianth .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The perianth.
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- noun botany The
perianth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In this state it may not unfrequently be found. in the substance of the column and in that of the perianthium.
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The leaves, stalk, and underside of the perianthium of this plant are all woolly.
A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683
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The flowers are white, standing on single foot-stalks, of the shape of a Stramonium, but divided into 4 points only, as is the perianthium.
A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683
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The perianthium composed of five long-pointed parts, the form of the seed vessel and the smallness of the seeds, together with the irregular shape of the flower and thinness of the leaves, argue this plant to be a
A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683
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Deciduum perianthium: pofl floris explicationem cadetu.
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