calices
Americannoun
noun
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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
Oculinidae.—Branching or massive aporose corals, the calices projecting above the level of a compact coenenchyme formed from the coenosarc which covers the exterior of the corallum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Inventes illic, qui Nestoris ebibat annos: Qu� sit per calices facta Sibylla suos.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
Cui patellas aureas, et argenteos calices, et sumptuosa donaria, et opulentam gazam invidet?
From Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund
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
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