calyces
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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But it is the Mexican bush sage that has heft and presence, growing to five feet or more and smothering itself in white flowers emerging from violet-purple calyces.
From Washington Post
Eros and Psyche tended the flowers, which did not fade when Psyche stroked the stems or gently kissed the calyces.
From Project Gutenberg
The hemipenes of the other genera have proximal folds, distal spines, and distal calyces, not greatly unlike the condition found in Tantalophis.
From Project Gutenberg
When the leafless shoots are studded with the golden-yellow, narrow-petalled flowers, with their crimson calyces, it is very pretty.
From Project Gutenberg
This proves a veritable feast for the forlorn remnant of wasps and butterflies,—the year’s end stragglers whose flower calyces have fallen and given place to swelling seeds.
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