Dictionary

perianth en · NOUN

Etymology

From French périanthe, from New Latin perianthium.

Meanings

1. The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals).
2. The sterile, tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure in a leafy liverwort.
   • Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes. 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:

Forms

Deriveds

perianthless · pseudoperianth · perianthal

Synonyms

perigone

Translations (21)

uk оцві́тина (sterile parts of a flower) · vi bao hoa (sterile parts of a flower) · mk околуцве́тник (sterile parts of a flower) · ja 花被 (sterile parts of a flower) · gv ym-blaa (sterile parts of a flower) · fr périanthe (sterile parts of a flower) · ro periant (sterile parts of a flower) · cy blodeulen (sterile parts of a flower) · tl talampok (sterile parts of a flower) · es periantio (sterile parts of a flower) · fi kehä (sterile parts of a flower) · pt perianto (sterile parts of a flower) · es perianto (sterile parts of a flower) · ca periant (sterile parts of a flower) · bg околоцветник (sterile parts of a flower) · el περιάνθιο (sterile parts of a flower) · it perigonio (sterile parts of a flower) · cy perianth (sterile parts of a flower) · ru околоцве́тник (sterile parts of a flower) · hu virágtakaró (sterile parts of a flower) · pl okwiat (sterile parts of a flower)