perigonium
- Noun. The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals); the perianth.
- Noun. The modified leaves around the antheridia in a bryophytic plant.
- Noun. (dated) The wall of the sporosac in a hydroid.
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