Crossword-Solution: PELORIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Peloria | n. | Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity. |
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| PELORIA | anagram | PROELIA |
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| Botanical change. | 1 answer |
| abnormal production of flowers in a plant | 1 answer |
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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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Sentences with PELORIA (5)
PELORIA or PELORISM.—The appearance of regularity of structure in the flowers of plants which normally bear irregular flowers.
This seems at least to me a priori a more probable view than to look at one form of Peloria as due to reversion and the other as something distinct.
Masters designates the cases first alluded to as regular peloria; and others, in which all the corresponding parts assume a similar form of irregularity, as when all the petals in a Linaria become spurred, as irregular peloria.
But as both forms of peloria frequently occur on the same individual plant of the Linaria,[69] they probably stand in some close relation to one another.
The conclusion that peloria is not a mere monstrosity, irrespective of any former state of the species, is supported by the fact that this structure is often strongly inherited, as in the case of the peloric Antirrhinum and Gloxinia and sometimes in that of the peloric _Corydalis solida_.[72] Lastly I may add that many instances have been recorded of flowers, not generally considered as peloric, in which certain organs are abnormally augmented in number.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1942).