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perigynium

CIDE DICTIONARY

perigyniumn. [NL. See Perigynous.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]

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