Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Muscineæ, the circle of more or less modiefied leaves surrounding a group of sexual organs, comprising antheridia and archegonia, or archegonia alone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Same as
perichæth .
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- noun botany
perichaeth
Etymologies
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New Latin, from Ancient Greek περί ("about") + χαίτη ("flowing hair, foliage").
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Examples
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Spicilegium florae Goettingensis: plantas inprimis cryptogamicas Hercyniae ... 1778
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