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- noun Plural form of
perianth .
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Each saucer is the bearer again of sub-divided pedicels which stretch out to support other brightly verdant little leafy dishes; so that the whole system of well poised flowering perianths forms a specially handsome candelabrum of emerald (cup-like) bloom.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The interest of the case is largely added to by Mr.C. W. C.ocker's observation that seedlings from the _normal_ flowers produced plants which bore, in about the same proportion as the parent-plant, hermaphrodite flowers having inferior perianths.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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Surface patterns of the persistent vestigial perianths adherent on the achenes show some differences between the wild and the cultivated forms.
REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio 2010
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When feveral florets comprehended within a common calyx are furnilhcd alfo with their proper perianths. —
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Numerous oversights fall to my lot, but in many of the descriptions other than strictly proper botanical terms have been employed, where it seemed desirable to use more intelligible ones; as, for instance, the flowers of the Composites have not always been termed "heads," perianths have sometimes been called corollas, and their divisions at times petals, and so on; this is hardly worthy of the times, perhaps, but it was thought that the terms would be more generally understood.
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Paradise -- blooms not with motionless perianths, but with living animals, the most exquisite that God has allowed to develop in our sweet waters. "
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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