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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 perigone
 花被; 花蓋

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Per·i·gone n.
 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. Zool. A sac which surrounds the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]