calices

American  

[kal-uh-seez] / ˈkæl əˌsiz /

noun

1. the plural of calix.

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calices British  

/ ˈkælɪˌsiːz /

noun

1. the plural of calix

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Example Sentences

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

The top of the spire, all calices, the calyx being indeed, through all the veronicas, an important and persistent member.

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

Towards evening every bird became silent, the flowers closed their calices, the leaves of the trees hung limply down.

From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r

Then to please the females, he described to them the reliquaries, feretories, calices, crosiers, crosses, pyxes, monstrances, and other wonders ecclesiastical, and the goblets, hanaps, watches, clocks, chains, brooches, &c., so that their mouths watered.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

The capital of the Corinthian column is peculiar, representing flower calices and leaves, "pointing upwards, and curving like natural plants."

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park