Associations to the word «Perigone»

Wiktionary

PERIGONE, noun. (botany) perianth
PERIGONE, noun. In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.
PERIGONE, noun. (zoology) A sac surrounding the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.

Dictionary definition

PERIGONE, noun. Collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils.

Wise words

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson