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perianthnoun(botany) The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals).
perigoniumnoun(botany) The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals); the perianth.
perianthiumnoun(botany, archaic) The perianth.
sepalnoun(botany) One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when such components are not fused into a single structure.
petalnoun(botany) One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.
petalumnoun(botany, obsolete) A petal.
thecanoun(biology) Any of several external cases or sheaths.
peltanoun(historical) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped.
sepalodynoun(botany) The metamorphosis of other leaves or other organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.
corollanoun(botany) The outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused.
calyxnoun(botany) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.
perulanoun(botany) One of the scales of a leaf bud.
hypsophyllnoun(botany) A bract or bracteole.
flower petalnounA modified leaf that surrounds the reproductive parts of flowers, often brightly colored or unusually shaped to attract pollinators.
hypanthiumnoun(botany) The bowl-shaped part of a flower on which the sepals, petals, and stamens are borne
receptaclenounA container.
lepalnoun(botany, obsolete) A sterile transformed stamen.
petalodynoun(botany) The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals.
pappusnoun(botany) The markedly reduced sepals of an Asteraceae floret that take the form of trichomes or scale attached to the ovary or seed.
pointalnoun(obsolete, botany) The pistil of a plant.

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