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Definition: Perigynia
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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