perigynous
Americanadjective
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situated around the pistil on the edge of a cuplike receptacle, as stamens or petals.
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having stamens, petals, etc., so arranged.
adjective
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(of a flower) having a concave or flat receptacle with the gynoecium and other floral parts at the same level, as in the rose
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of or relating to the parts of a flower arranged in this way
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Having sepals, petals, and stamens around the edge of a cuplike receptacle (the hypanthium) containing the pistil, as in flowers of the rose or cherry.
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Compare epigynous hypogynous
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Etymology
Origin of perigynous
From the New Latin word perigynus, dating back to 1800–10. See peri-, -gynous
Example Sentences
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Petals either none or as many as the lobes of the calyx, equal, with short claws if any, inserted on the margin of the lobed disk, which is either perigynous or hypogynous.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Stamens perigynous, 10 in number, 3 upper ones very small and frequently sterile, 3 lower very large.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
In Umbelliferæ the epigynous condition is changed for the perigynous, &c.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
Hypogynous flowers become perigynous by adhesion, or by lack of separation; perigynous ones become hypogynous by an early detachment from the receptacle that bears them, or by the arrested development of an ordinarily cup-like receptacle.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
Stamens perigynous on the usually withering-persistent nerved perianth; anthers introrse.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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