Meaning of pelorian | Babel Free

Definitions

Exhibiting peloria (abnormal regularity).

Examples

“I am indebted to a friend for the sight of a pelorian variety of a species of Tropæolum, and have⟳ also much pleasure in showing the Society an imperfectly developed pelorian variety of the pretty Pinguicula vulgaris, which I gathered on Roydon Fen, near Diss in Norfolk, in the summer of 1835.”

“In some gamopetalous corollas with a single spur, it happens occasionally, that what are called Pelorian varieties occur⟳ in which five spurs are produced.”

“In this note⟳ the author adverted to bo much of the normal structure⟳ of Orchids in general, and of Cypripedium in particular, as is necessary for the elucidation of his subject, and proceeded to describe⟳ a case of regular peloria in Cypripedium caudatum, which shows a reversion to the typical form⟳ of Orchids, and goes to prove⟳ that the so-called genus Uropedium was only a pelorian form⟳ of Cypripedium.”

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