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calyx
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, from Latin calyx , from Greek kalyx "seed pod, husk, outer covering" (of a fruit, flower bud, etc.), from root of kalyptein "to cover, conceal" (see cell ). The proper plural is calyces . Some sources connect the word rather with Greek kylix "drinking ...
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CALYX, Inc. is a non-profit publisher of art and literature by women founded in 1976 based in Corvallis, Oregon . CALYX publishes both CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women twice a year and CALYX Books, which publishes one to three books annually. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) A cup-like structure in the mammalian kidney. 2 (context botany English) The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, when it is not the same in appearance as the next such whorl (the corolla). 3 (context zoology ...
Usage examples of calyx.
He is smiling expansively, entranced by the mobile plants which cluster around us, fronds upraised to savour our carbon dioxide, calyces begging our hands for pollination.
As they fade the calyces become fleshy and much enlarged, and resemble the fruit of the hawthorn when ripe.
Each minute flower has four green petals and brownish seed organs, which cause the knob of flowers to have a rather grimy look, and a calyx which is very hard and stout, having two scales and four sepals.
The outer corolla is much shorter, crumpled, rolled back, and somewhat marked with green, as if intermediate in its nature between the larger corolla and the calyx.
Taking one of the flowers from the bunch, Asenath, as they slowly walked forward, proceeded to dissect it, explained the mysteries of stamens and pistils, pollen, petals, and calyx, and, by the time they had reached the village, had succeeded in giving him a general idea of the Linnaean system of classification.
The little calyx is cup-shaped, angular, and has small, stout, horn-like segments, which are bent downwards.
There is, however, an important botanical difference between the two genera: the thalictrums have no calyx, and the Isopyrums have.
Ogle was just in the process of computerizing his whole operation, buying big high-powered Calyx workstations from Pacific Netware, and those unsightly holes in the plaster made installation a snap.
We start with the seed, from which we first imagine the cotyledons unfolding, letting this be followed by the gradual development of the entire green part of the plant, its stem and leaves, until the final leaves change into the sepals of the calyx.
No odors, no fluids, just images on TV monitors, tracings on oscilloscopes, graphics on their Calyx workstations, and the occasional disembodied sound effect coming out of a speaker.
Sipes and Mary Catherine ended up in a dark, quiet room in front of a high-powered Calyx computer system with two huge monitors, one color and one black-and-white.
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.