The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calyx \Ca"lyx\ (k[=a]"l[i^]ks; 277), n.; pl. E. Calyxes (k[=a]"l[i^]ks*[e^]z), L. Calyces (k[a^]l"[i^]*s[=e]z). [L. calyx, -ycis, fr. Gr. ka`lyx husk, shell, calyx, from the root of kaly`ptein to cover, conceal. Cf. Chalice Helmet.]
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(Bot.) The covering of a flower. See Flower.
Note: The calyx is usually green and foliaceous, but becomes delicate and petaloid in such flowers as the anemone and the four-o'clock. Each leaf of the calyx is called a sepal.
(Anat.) A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papill[ae].
Usage examples of "calyxes".
He pressed caressingly the carved calyxes, once, twice, a third time even as she had— and silently and softly the wall began to split.
I pressed my fingers upon the calyxes, even as Larry had within the Moon Chamber.
He pressed caressingly thecarved calyxes, once, twice, a third time even as she had and silentlyand softly the wall began to split.
I pressed my fingers upon the calyxes, even as Larry hadwithin the Moon Chamber.
Those in the seventeenth century catalogues stood up well to the strain, and the moderns were immune, but the Romantics burst their calyxes by the score.
From the calyxes of both fruit and flower trailed long beards of cellulose fibers.
Along the track where they rode the hazel-nuts dropped ripe from their fringed calyxes, and under the silver webs of autumn late blackberries glinted like garnets.
They grew from a ground that their overlapping stems and calyxes had utterly concealed.