calices
Americannoun
noun
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
None of these blossoms can be carried far after being picked; they have a tantalizing habit of dropping off, leaving a bouquet of tiny green calices chiefly.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan
By now the sun was up, and the celandine calices expanded into perfect golden stars.
From Lives of the Fur Folk by M. D. Haviland
A, Portion of the surface of a colony of Heliopora coerulea magnified, showing two calices and the surrounding coenenchymal tubes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Oswego Tea; Bee Balm; Indian's Plume; Fragrant Balm; Mountain Mint Monarda didyma Flowers—Scarlet, clustered in a solitary, terminal, rounded head of dark-red calices, with leafy bracts below it.
From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan
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