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Perianth
Perianth meaning
The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals). | The sterile, tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure in a leafy liverwort.
Synonyms of Perianth
Example sentences (3)
The style is much longer than the perianth, and is initially trapped by the upper perianth parts.
The immature seeds are infested and desapped by larvae staying in the portion covered by the perianth of the immature seed; the seeds then drop off or survive deformed.
When the styles and perianth parts are different colours, the visual effect is of a colour change sweeping along the spike.