Crossword-Solution: PERIANTH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Perianth | n. | The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished. |
| Perianth | n. | A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PERIANTH | anagram | TREPHINA |
We have 6 clues for the answer “PERIANTH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| The outer part of a flower consisting of sepals and petals | 1 answer |
| flower envelope | 1 answer |
| outer part of a flower | 1 answer |
| calyx | 5 answers |
| FLOWER, type of | 18 answers |
| flower part | 36 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with PERIANTH (5)
The fructification is attached to the stem by a thick stalk, which, in its upper part, bears a large number of spirally arranged bracts, forming collectively a kind of perianth and completely enclosing the essential organs of reproduction.
Hooker[175] in _Begonia frigida._ This plant properly produces male and female flowers on the same fascicles; and in the female flowers the perianth is superior; but a plant at Kew produced, besides the ordinary flowers, others which graduated towards a perfect hermaphrodite structure; and in these flowers the perianth was inferior.
Corresponding to the outer, perianth-segments are the three stamens and the three, petal-like divisions of the style, each bearing a transverse stigma immediately above the anther.
According to systematic views of the monocotyledons the original prototype of the genus _Iris_ must have had a whorl of six equal, or nearly equal perianth-segments and six stamens, such as are now seen in the more primitive types of the family of the lilies, as for instance in the lilies themselves, the tulips, hyacinths and others.
Heinricher however, in cultivating some anomalous forms of _Iris pallida_, succeeded in filling out this gap and in producing [174] flowers with a uniform perianth and six stamens, recalling thereby the supposed ancestral type.