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 Literature

Inventes illic, qui Nestoris ebibat annos: Qu� sit per calices facta Sibylla suos.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg