Perigone

2 definitions found

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

  Perigone \Per"i*gone\, n. [Pref. peri- + Gr. ? productive
     organs.]
     1. (Bot.)
        (a) Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower;
            a perianth.
        (b) In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.


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     2. (Zool.) A sac which surrounds the generative bodies in the
        gonophore of a hydroid.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  perigone
       n : collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting
           of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and
           pistils [syn: {perianth}, {chlamys}, {floral envelope}, {perigonium}]