perigynium

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perigynium - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Perigynium \Per`i*gyn"i*um\, n.; pl. Perigynia. [NL. See
     Perigynous.] (Bot.)
     Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped
     body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other
     genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperace[ae].
     [1913 Webster]