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

The motto, “Vesani calices quid non fecere,” a parody on the line, “Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?”

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

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

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