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
Thus Theophrastus has succeeded in distinguishing between the hypogynous, perigynous, and epigynous types of flower, and has almost come to regard its relation to the fruit as the essential floral element.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
Its chief difference from Polygaleæ, is habit, foliation, and the perigynous insertion of corolla and stamina, and consequent union of the sepals.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith
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
In the next stage there is a further shortening of the central axis, leaving the outer portion as a ring on which the petals are inserted, producing the arrangement termed perigynous.
From Darwinism (1889) by Alfred Russel Wallace
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