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
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
C. L. N. A. I. J. In line 1 scan maddahiyi; and compare Horace, �Edocet artes; Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.�
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
Her tiny claws must laboriously gather the powder from the calices, which powder she needs must swallow in order to take it back to her lair.
From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred
I am learned, you see: Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
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