calices
Americannoun
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the plural of calix.
noun
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the plural of calix
Example Sentences
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Some of the plants were not yet in bloom, their buds curled in pink, pointed spirals held in the pale green calices, but most were already star-flowering and giving off their strong scent.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
To protect the flowers from useless crawling visitors, the calices are coated with sticky matter, and the stems are downy.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje
Inventes illic, qui Nestoris ebibat annos: Qu� sit per calices facta Sibylla suos.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
Whereas little or nothing of a risky sort can be snuffed up out of Flower-pieces, and their painted calices, since painted worms remain where they are.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
I was observing with some pertinacity Vorticella convallaria; for one of the calices in a group under observation was in a strange and semi-encysted state, while the remainder were in full normal activity.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various
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