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Calyx meaning
The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop. | Any of various cup-like structures. | A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes.
Example sentences (18)
Aster Calyx (Headey) is a government agent while Halan Kai Nelson (James) is a stoic ex-military man.
Bliss Goldstein has written for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Mercury News, and is CALYX Journal’s 2022 winner of the Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing.
Deanna and Campos identified this chili pepper fossil in the CU Boulder Museum of Natural History collections by the unique shape of its calyx teeth: spikes on the end of the fruiting stem that hold on to the pepper.
So you slice off the stem end just below the calyx, the little cap.
Calyx has been the talking horse since his impressive Newmarket debut and as it would not be Gosden’s normal way of working to bring a juvenile here 10 days after debut, that can be taken as a tip in itself.
Dezhi & Robinson (2001) the five points that stick out further than the petals are the calyx (chalis).
Growers typically cut fruits from the vine just above the calyx owing to the somewhat woody stems.
Mussaenda cultivars with enlarged, colored calyx lobes are shrubs with the aspect of Hydrangea ; they are mainly cultivated in tropical Asia.
The calyx has four or five sepals with basally fused lobes.
The calyx is long and tubular, swollen at the bottom, and sharply angled, surmounted by five sharp teeth.
The calyx is tubular or campanulate, they are slightly curved or straight, and the limbs are often 2-lipped with five teeth.
The calyx is usually spathaceous in Tabebuia, but never so in Handroanthus.
The dried calyx is used as fuel in wood-fired stoves.
The flowers are small, convert diameter, with pink calyx.
The rims around the outside of the hypanthium contain the calyx lobes or free sepals, petals and either the stamen or multiple stamen that are attached at one or two points.
The three 0.8 to 1.2 cm long sepals are fused, white, have fluffy hairs and the three calyx teeth are unequal.
The two upper petals are large and are placed under the hood of the calyx and are supported on long stalks.
Unlike Roseodendron, the calyx of Tabebuia is always distinctly harder and thicker than the corolla.