Category:Perigone

Per"i*gone, n. Etym: [pref. peri- + gr.

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. (zoöl.)

Defn: a sac which surrounds the generative bodies in the gonophore of A hydroid.