Download the app
educalingo
peloric

Meaning of "peloric" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PELORIC

pɛˈlɔːrɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PELORIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Peloric is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PELORIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Floral symmetry

Floral symmetry describes whether, and how, a flower, in particular its perianth, can be divided into two or more identical or mirror-image parts. Uncommonly, flowers may have no axis of symmetry at all, typically because their parts are spirally arranged.

Definition of peloric in the English dictionary

The definition of peloric in the dictionary is of or relating to peloria.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PELORIC

arthrosporic · auric · blastoporic · boric · chloric · chromophoric · equicaloric · euchloric · fluoric · folkloric · Hathoric · isochoric · mastigophoric · megasporic · microsporic · oosporic · pyloric · sophomoric · thoric · zoosporic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PELORIC

peloid · pelology · pelon · Peloponnese · Peloponnesian · Peloponnesian War · Peloponnesos · Peloponnesus · Pelops · peloria · pelorian · pelorised · pelorism · pelorus · pelota · Pelotas · pelotherapy · peloton · pelt · pelta

WORDS THAT END LIKE PELORIC

caloric · diasporic · Doric · dysphoric · euphoric · historic · hydrochloric · hydrofluoric · isocaloric · metaphoric · meteoric · motoric · noncaloric · paregoric · past historic · phosphoric · prehistoric · rhetoric · Theodoric · toric

Synonyms and antonyms of peloric in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «peloric» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PELORIC

Find out the translation of peloric to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of peloric from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «peloric» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

peloric
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

pelórica
570 millions of speakers
en

English

peloric
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

peloric
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

peloric
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

peloric
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

peloriadas
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

peloric
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

pélorique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pelorik
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

pelorischen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

peloric
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

peloric
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Peloric
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

peloric
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

peloric
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

श्लोकिक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

peloric
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

peloric
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

peloric
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

peloric
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

peloric
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

peloric
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

peloric
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

peloric
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

peloric
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of peloric

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PELORIC»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of peloric
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «peloric».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about peloric

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PELORIC»

Discover the use of peloric in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to peloric and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
scientific papers of william bateson
all project from the tube, but some or all of them may be invaginated into it. This invagination may be complete or partial. In these peloric flowers the fifth stamen is always developed and bears an anther. The five stamens are of equal length, ...
2
Evolution in Four Dimensions, revised edition: Genetic, ...
Figure 4.9 The peloric (left) and normal (right) forms of Linaria vulgaris. a wolf's head.” He thought the plant might be a stable hybrid, produced through L. vulgaris being pollinated by some other species. But as a religious man, Linnaeus was ...
Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb, 2014
3
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
I thus raised two great beds of seedlings, and not one was peloric. Naudin u obtained the same result from crossing a • peloric Linaria with the common form. I carefully examined the flowers of ninety plants of the crossed Antirrhinum in the two ...
Charles Darwin, 1868
4
Advances in Botanical Research
However, these results may not reflect the real roles these genes play during orchid floral development. Peloric flowers that are actinomorphic mutants with lip ‐like petals are widely found in natural populations of species of Veronicaceae, ...
‎2008
5
Evolutionary Genetics : Concepts and Case Studies: Concepts ...
Peloric variants of Linaria and other plants (e.g., Antirrhinum) fascinated many later biologists, including Goethe, Darwin, and de Vries (see Gustafsson 1979). Eventually, in the early days of genetics, it was recognized that the peloric form of  ...
Lexington Charles W. Fox Department of Entomology University of Kentucky, Faculty of Life Sciences University of Manchester Jason B. Wolf Lecturer, 2006
6
Variation in Animals and Plants.
Starting with plants which had one or two peloric flowers, he bred and selected them through several generations, and ultimately obtained some entirely peloric plants. These plants were most of them sterile, but a few yielded seeds, and ...
H.M. Vernon, 1990
7
Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry
For example, there are two shapes of flower in the snapdragon Antirrhinum majus, the normal, irregular shape and the peloric, regular shape. Darwin crossed normal with peloric plants and all the offspring were normal, whether the cross was ...
Michael Bulmer, 2004
8
Charles Darwin's Collection (18 Books):
obliteration of the peloric structure in the crossed plants can be accounted for by any incapacity of transmission; for I raised a large bed ofplantsfrom the peloric Antirrhinum, artificially fertilised byits own pollen,and sixteen plants, which alone  ...
Charles Darwin, 2013
9
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:
D. Hooker 5 December [1866] Down Dec 5th My dear Hooker I will send tonight ( if I can find basket; if not next week) both forms of Mitchella repens, Leersia & some plants of Peloric antirrhinum;1 these you can throw away if you like but they  ...
Charles Darwin, Duncan M. Porter, Frederick Burkhardt, 2004
10
Charles Darwin's Shorter Publications, 1829-1883
Professor Moquin-Tandon asserts,4 that with irregular flowers, as Snapdragons, the terminal flower in the axis of the plant is more apt to become regular, or peloric as botanists say, than the other flowers. I once found a Labumum tree with the ...
Charles Darwin, John van Wyhe, 2009

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PELORIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term peloric is used in the context of the following news items.
1
'Hide & Seek' reveals the beauty in details
Four-leaf clovers are natural phenomena, but the most unusual orchids (called peloric mutations) result from cloning or genetic alteration. «Washington Post, Mar 15»
2
Towering tulips, mist-soaked fields, and glittering swallows …
This shot of a peloric foxglove beat thousands of contestants to take third ... This shot of a peloric foxglove beat thousands of contestants to take ... «Daily Mail, Jan 14»
3
Helen Chesnut: Giant flower on foxglove little cause for alarm
Possession of the peloric gene, which is a recessive gene, is not sufficient to produce a peloric bloom. There needs to be a trigger, in the form ... «The Province, Jul 12»
4
Why didn't Darwin discover Mendelian genetics first?
In one especially poignant case [1], working with the recessive character of radially symmetrical (peloric) flowers of Antirrhinum (Figure 4), ... «ScienceBlogs, Mar 09»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Peloric [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/peloric>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
EN