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perigynium |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Perigynium \Per`i*gyn"i*um\, n.; 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 {Cyperace[ae]}.
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