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calices

American  
[kal-uh-seez] / ˈkæl əˌsiz /

noun

  1. the plural of calix.


calices British  
/ ˈkælɪˌsiːz /

noun

  1. the plural of calix

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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

One of these, a M. Tiquet, a Councillor of the Parliament, sent her on her fête-day a bouquet, in which the calices of the roses were of large diamonds.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various

"You enticed two bumble-bees away from me to-day, though you haven't a farthing's-worth of honey in your withered calices."

From The Pond by Ewald, Carl

A, pyramids of Malpighi; B, apices, or papillæ, of the pyramids, surrounded by subdivisions of the pelvis known as cups or calices; C, pelvis of the kidney; D, upper end of ureter.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

Pocilloporidae.—Colonial branching aporose corals, with small calices sunk in the coenenchyme.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various