floral envelope

Questions about floral envelope

What does floral envelope mean?

floral envelope means "collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils".

What is another word for floral envelope?

Close synonyms include perianth, chlamys, perigone, perigonium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is floral envelope a common word?

floral envelope is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.