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The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.

The perianth.

Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.

Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth. Gray.

Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn.

A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary.

a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.

nous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.

A genus of Old World amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. The American species are now placed in the related genus Hymenocallis.

Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower; a perianth.

A pouchlike portion of the perianth in certain orchides.

Having the whole or part of the perianth petaline. Petaloideous division, that division of endogenous plants in which the perianth is wholly or partly petaline, embracing the Liliaceæ, Orchidaceæ, Amaryllideæ, etc.

Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.

of the same class; -- opposed to Ant: common noun; as, John, Boston, America. -- Proper perianth or involucre (Bot.), that which incloses only a single flower. -- Proper receptacle (Bot.), a receptacle which supports only a single flower or fructification.

Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf.

the genus Leucoium (L. vernum, æstivum, etc.) resembling the snowdrop, but having all the perianth leaves of equal size.

A division of a perianth. [R.]