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Peristoma

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peristomenoun(zoology) The parts of or surrounding the mouths of numerous invertebrates.
endostomenounThe inner peristome of mosses.
fringenoun(also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
perichetenounAlternative form of perichaeth. [(botany) The leafy involucre surrounding the archegonium (fruit stalk) of mosses]
pseudostomenoun(more generally) A false opening that resembles a stoma but without any true aperture.
exostomenoun(botany) The small aperture or foramen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.
perisporenoun(botany) The outer covering of a spore.
stomanoun(medicine) A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy.
perichaethnoun(botany) The leafy involucre surrounding the archegonium (fruit stalk) of mosses
peristerianoun(botany) Any of the genus Peristeria of orchidaceous plants.
stomatenoun(archaic) stoma
operculumnoun(zoology) A covering flap in animals, such as a gill cover.
stomiumnoun(botany) The region of a sporangium where dehiscence takes place
hypostomiumnoun(botany) The region immediately anterior of a stomium
peridiolenoun(mycology) A lens-shaped capsule of spores that grows in cups of some kinds of fungi.
parenthesomenoun(biology) A septal pore cap, a microscopic structure of unknown function found in the cells of basidiomycete fungi.
peridiolumnoun(botany) An inner peridium inside of which the hymenium is formed.
siphonostelenoun(botany) A type of stele in which the vascular tissue in the stem forms a cylinder surrounding a central pith and possessing leaf gaps.
peritheciumnoun(mycology) An ascocarp shaped like a skittle or ball, distinguished by a small pore, the ostiole, through which the spores are released one by one when ripe.
antherozooidnounAlternative form of antherozoid. [(botany) One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.]

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