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Webster 1913 Edition

(pĕr′ĭ-ănth)

Noun.

[Pref.

peri-

+ Gr.

ἀνθοσ

flower: cf. F.

périanthe

(Bot.)

(a)

The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.

(b)

A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of

Noun.

[Gr. about, and flower.] The calyx of a flower when contiguous to the other parts of fructification.