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perianths

perianths is the plural of perianth.

Meaning of perianth

Noun

perianth (plural perianths)

  1. The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals).
  2. The sterile, tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure in a leafy liverwort.
    • Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5

Questions about perianths

What is perianths the plural of?
Perianths is the plural of perianth.

Words near perianths in the dictionary

  1. perianthia
  2. perianthial
  3. perianthium
  4. perianthless
  5. perianthomania
  6. perianths
  7. periaortal
  8. periaortic
  9. periaortically
  10. periaortitis
  11. periapertural

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