perianth
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of perianth
1700–10; earlier perianthium < New Latin. See peri-, anth-, -ium
Example Sentences
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The cup of the daffodil extends from radiating petals called a perianth.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2021
In some, the perianth is yellow and the cup a strong orange; in others, the perianth is white with rose-red cups; and in some, it is white with a yellow cup.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2021
Honeybird has a pale lemon perianth with a white trumpet that is yellow at its base.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2021
At the center of the perianth is a vase-like structure called the carpel.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Branches clustered; leaves loose, imbricate on the branches, round-ovate, entire; perianth pyriform, slightly compressed and repand, smooth, obscurely carinate beneath and gibbous toward the apex.
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 Gray, Asa
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