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Meaning of perianth | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The sterile parts of a flower; collectively, the sepals and petals (or tepals).
  2. The sterile, tubelike tissue that surrounds the female reproductive structure in a leafy liverwort.

Equivalents

Ελληνικά περιάνθιο
Español periantio perianto
Suomi kehä
Français périanthe
Italiano perigonio
日本語 花被
Polski okwiat
Português perianto
Tiếng Việt bao hoa

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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