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 natives never remove the calices of the rose-flowers, but place the whole into the still as it comes from the garden.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

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.

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 Blanchan, Neltje

Poritidae.—Incrusting or massive colonial perforate corals; calices usually in contact by their edges, sometimes disjunct and immersed in coenenchyme.

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