Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The part of a flower outside the reproductive structures, usually consisting of the calyx and the corolla.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the floral envelops, whether calyx or corolla or both.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.
- noun A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See
Illust. ofhepatica .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The
sterile parts of aflower ; collectively, thesepals andpetals (ortepals ). - noun botany The sterile, tubelike
tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure in a leafyliverwort .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the female flower the perianth is the same as in the former, the stamens sterile.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Applied to a perianth, which is tough, thin, and femi-tranfparent; as in Statice Armaria, or Thrift, Centaurea glaf -
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Many of the recorded instances of so-called metamorphosis of the parts of the flower to sepals have occurred in monocotyledonous plants, or others in which the calyx and corolla are of the same colour, and constitute what is frequently termed the perianth; and as this is usually brightly coloured (not green) it is more convenient to group the metamorphoses in question under the general term Petalody, which thus includes all those cases in which the organs of the flower appear in the form of coloured petal-like organs, whether they be true petals or segments of a coloured perianth.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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B, The "perianth" with the small perichaetial leaves below it.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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To these leaves surrounding the sporophylls, the general name of "perianth" or
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The segments of the perianth also closed on the pistil, but more slowly than the stamens.
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The segments of the perianth also closed on the pistil, but more slowly than the stamens.
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Bud angled, perianth lobes joined, fleshy with a red surface.
Chapter 7 1999
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Remarks: The other member of this genus in Kenya, H. africana, is different in that it has no hairs at the edge of the perianth lobes.
Chapter 7 1999
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This crown is connected at the base of the divisions of the perianth, which divisions do not go to the base of the flower, but form what may be called an outer tube.
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