Associations to the word «Perianth»
Noun
Adjective
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
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.