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peloria
[ puh-lawr-ee-uh, -lohr- ]
noun
Botany.
- regularity of structure occurring abnormally in flowers normally irregular.
peloria
/ -ˈlɒ-; pɛˈlɔːrɪə; pɛˈlɔːrɪk /
noun
- the abnormal production of actinomorphic flowers in a plant of a species that usually produces zygomorphic flowers
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Derived Forms
- peloric, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ·ǰ· [p, uh, -, lawr, -ik, -, lor, -], adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of peloria1
C19: via New Latin from Greek ōDz, from ō monster
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He named the plant Peloria, after the Greek word for 'monster'.
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Peloria, pē-lō′ri-a, n. the appearance of regularity in flowers normally irregular—also Pel′orism.—adjs.
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Peloria, an abnormal return to regularity and symmetry in an irregular flower; commonest in Snapdragon.
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In Thessaly the peloria were a festival, the name of which was derived from Pelor, the man that brought news that an earthquake had drained the valley of Tempe.
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Diclinous or monochlamydeous plants owe their imperfect conformation to suppression, and may become structurally complete by a species of peloria.
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