perianth

English

Etymology

From peri- +‎ -anth, thus "around the flower.", from French périanthe, from New Latin perianthium.

Noun

perianth (plural perianths)

1. (botany) The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals).
2. (botany, bryology) The sterile, tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure in a leafy liverwort.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5

     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.

Synonyms

• perigone

Translations

sterile parts of a flower

• Finnish: kehä (fi)
• French: périanthe (fr) m
• Greek: περιάνθιο (el) n (periánthio)
• Italian: perigonio m
• Macedonian: околуцветник m (okolucvétnik)

• Manx: ym-blaa m
• Russian: околоцве́тник (ru) m (okolocvétnik)
• Spanish: periantio m, perianto (es) m
• Tagalog: talampok
• Ukrainian: оцві́тина f (ocvítyna)

Anagrams

• Perthian, triphane