(n.) A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.
(n.) A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of the findings of their investigation of the embryogenesis of the female genital tract, the authors advance a hypothesis concerning the origin of ambiguities between the genetic sex and the gonophoric sex which determine primary sexual characteristics observed in Morris' syndrome and in gonadoblastoma.
Perigone
Definition:
(n.) Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower; a perianth.
(n.) In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.
(n.) A sac which surrounds the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.