Perigone

[perigәun]

(n.) Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower; a perianth.

(n.) In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.

(n.) A sac which surrounds the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.

Edited by Bradley

n. (bot.) the same as Perianth—also Perigō′nium.—adj. Perigō′nial.

Typed by Jack