Associations to the word «Perianth»

Wiktionary

PERIANTH, noun. (botany) The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals).
PERIANTH, noun. (botany) (bryology) The sterile, tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure in a leafy liverwort.

Dictionary definition

PERIANTH, noun. Collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King