Crossword-Solution: PERIGYNIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Perigynium | n. | Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceae. |
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| CAREX fruit | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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CZEMEA
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eruption
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Sentences with PERIGYNIUM (5)
The uppermost spike or spikes wholly staminate, the lower one or more pistillate; ovary and achene surrounded by a sac, the perigynium.
Beak of the perigynium straight =Sedge, Carex pennsylvanica.= ARACEAE, the Arum Family Individual flowers small, but crowded on a fleshy spadix to form a conspicuous spike, usually surrounded by a green or colored spathe.
Spike one, globular or short-oblong, staminate at the apex; perigynium straw-colored, paper-like, more or less inflated; stigmas three.
Perigynium prominently 3-angled 68-74 Perigynium large, thin, much inflated 9-16 Perigynium firmer, not inflated.
Slender but stiff and erect, 1--2° high; leaves narrow and firm, shorter than the culm; spikes 2--3, the lowest usually remote and short-peduncled, the remainder aggregated and sessile; staminate spike small, wholly sessile; perigynium not inflated, erect or spreading, twice longer than the blunt scale.