Peloria

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Peloria \Pe*lo"ri*a\, n. [NL., from Gr. ? monstrous.] (Bot.)
     Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which,
     being naturally irregular, have become regular through a
     symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity.
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