1. Noun
Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower; a perianth.
2. Noun
In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.
3. Noun
A sac which surrounds the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.
4. Noun
collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils
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