perigone
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See peri- (“around”) and gon- (“sexual reproduction”).
Noun[edit]
perigone (plural perigones)
- (botany) perianth
- In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.
- (zoology) A sac surrounding the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.
Translations[edit]
perianth — see perianth