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pelorian

pelorian adjective: exhibiting peloria (abnormal regularity).

Adjective

pelorian (comparative more pelorian, superlative most pelorian)

  1. Exhibiting peloria (abnormal regularity).
    • I am indebted to a friend for the sight of a pelorian variety of a species of Tropæolum, and have also much pleasure in showing the Society an imperfectly developed pelorian variety of the pretty Pinguicula vulgaris, which I gathered on Roydon Fen, near Diss in Norfolk, in the summer of 1835.1840, Mr. Adam White, “Note on Peloria”, in Annals of Natural History, volume 4
    • In some gamopetalous corollas with a single spur, it happens occasionally, that what are called Pelorian varieties occur in which five spurs are produced.1852, John Hutton Balfour, Class Book of Botany

Forms of pelorian

comparativemore pelorian
superlativemost pelorian

Questions about pelorian

What does pelorian mean?
Pelorian means exhibiting peloria (abnormal regularity).
What part of speech is pelorian?
Pelorian is an adjective.

Words near pelorian in the dictionary

  1. Pelops
  2. pelopsia
  3. Peloquin
  4. Peloquins
  5. peloria
  6. pelorian
  7. peloriate
  8. peloric
  9. peloridiid
  10. peloridiids
  11. pelories

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