Associations to the word «Perigonium»

Noun

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Wiktionary

PERIGONIUM, noun. The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals); the perianth.
PERIGONIUM, noun. The modified leaves around the antheridia in a bryophytic plant.
PERIGONIUM, noun. (dated) The wall of the sporosac in a hydroid.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope