peloric
- a word derived from peloria.
Example Sentences
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Hence the suggestion is forced upon us that perhaps, owing to some unknown cause, all the peloric individuals of my experiment belonged to one and the same type, and were sterile for this reason only.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
Westwood, J. O., on peloric flowers of Calceolaria, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
The peloric form is stated to be transmitted by seed.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
On the other hand, in peloric flowers of Cytisus Laburnum, Clitoria Ternatea, Trifolium repens, and other Papilionaceæ, it is the "standard," the form of which is repeated.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
But here unfortunately the high degree of sterility of the peloric plants, as previously noted, makes the experimental evidence a thing of great difficulty.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
