Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Perichaeth

Perichaeth , noun

[See Perichaetium.]

(Botany) The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichaetium; perichete.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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