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Calyx

//ˈkæ.lɪks// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.

    "Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds."

  2. 2
    (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of various cup-like structures.; A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes.
  4. 4
    Any of various cup-like structures.; The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians.
  5. 5
    Any of various cup-like structures.; A funnel-shaped expansion of the vas deferens or oviduct of insects.
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  1. 6
    Any of various cup-like structures.; A flattened cap of neuropil in the brain of insects.

Etymology

From Latin calyx, from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “case of a bud, husk”). Doublet of chalice and kelch.

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