Calyx Definition

kālĭks, kălĭks
calyces, calyxes
noun
The outer whorl of protective leaves (sepals) of a flower, usually green.
Webster's New World
A cuplike part or cavity.
Webster's New World
A flower-shaped or funnel-shaped structure.
American Heritage Medicine
Any of the branches or recesses of the pelvis of the kidney into which the orifices of the malpighian renal pyramids project.
American Heritage Medicine

(anatomy) A cup-like structure in the mammalian kidney.

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Noun

Singular:
calyx
Plural:
calyces, calyxes

Origin of Calyx

  • Latin calyx, from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kalux, “case of a bud, husk”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin calyx calyc- from Greek kalux

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Calyx Sentence Examples

  • In his arrangement the last subdivision disappears, and the Dicotyledons fall into two groups, a larger containing those in which both calyx and corolla are present in the flower, and a smaller, Monochlamydeae, representing the Apetalae and Diclines Irregulares of Jussieu.

  • The bracts on the flower-stalk are either small and scattered or large and leafy, and then placed near the flower, forming a sort of outer calyx or epicalyx.

  • Flower removed from 2, Calyx.

  • The calyx and corolla consist of five parts, the stamens are ten in two rows, while the pistil has only two parts developed.

  • There is thus traced a degradation, as it is called, from a flower with three stamens and three divisions of the calyx, to one with a single bract and a single stamen.

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