perigone

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Etymology

From French périgone, doublet of perigonium.

Noun

perigone (plural perigones)

  1. (botany) perianth
  2. In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.
  3. (zoology) A sac surrounding the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.

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