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Perigynium

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) 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 Cyperaceae.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Perigynium'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/perigynium.html. 1828.