(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:52:57

Pe*lo"ri*a (?), n. [NL., from Gr. monstrous.] Bot.

Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity.

 

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