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Webster 1913 Edition
Perigynium
‖
Perˊi-gyn′i-um
,Noun.
pl.
Perigynia
(#)
. [NL. See
Perigynous
.] (Bot.)
Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or
Cyperaceæ
.