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Peloric

Peloric \Pe*lo"ric\, a. (Bot.) Abnormally regular or symmetrical.
--Darwin.

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peloric

a. (context botany of a flower English) Having a mutation such that a normally asymmetric flower becomes radially symmetric

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But the case which most concerns us, is the frequent appearance of peloric flowers on the summit of a stem, or in the centre of the inflorescence,--parts which, it is believed, receive the most sap.