Peloria

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Unusual regularity in the form of a flower that is normally irregular.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, the appearance of regularity of structure in the flowers of plants which normally bear irregular flowers.
    • Word Usage
    "Possibly these several differences may be connected with the different flow of nutriment towards the central and external flowers: we know, at least, that with irregular flowers, those nearest to the axis are most subject to peloria, that is to become abnormally symmetrical."
     
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