Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Perigone \Per"i*gone\, n. [Pref. peri- + Gr. ? productive
organs.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower;
a perianth.
(b) In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A sac which surrounds the generative bodies in
the gonophore of a hydroid.
Source : WordNet®
perigone
n : collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting
of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and
pistils [syn: {perianth}, {chlamys}, {floral envelope}, {perigonium}]