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• a variation of calyx.

calix

American  

[key-liks, kal-iks] / ˈkeɪ lɪks, ˈkæl ɪks /

noun

• calices
  plural

1. Literary. a cup or chalice, especially one used ceremonially.

2. Anatomy, calyx.

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calix British  

/ ˈkeɪlɪks, ˈkæ- /

noun

1. a cup; chalice

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• calices
  plural

Etymology

Origin of calix

First recorded in 1700–10; from Latin; see origin at chalice

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

calix calices

Derived from the Latin word calix, genitive, calicis, meaning, a cup.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James

She brought him yellow wine of Chios in a glass calix of Murano, blown air-thin upon a slender stem and just touched here and there with drops of tender blue.

From Marietta A Maid of Venice by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Everywhere the lotus, image of immortality, in its calix opening at every dawn, appears on symbols of the worship.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

Masculine: apex, peak; cōdex, tree-trunk; grex, flock; imbrex, tile; pollex, thumb; vertex, summit; calix, cup.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

It was a graceful calix now, of a deep wine red, clear and transparent as claret.

From Marietta A Maid of Venice by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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 bell-shaped or so-called one-petalled calices represent these cloudy connected leaves, which, being more or less indented from above, or divided, plainly show their origin.

From A History of Science — Volume 4 by Williams, Henry Smith

Pocilloporidae.—Colonial branching aporose corals, with small calices sunk in the coenenchyme.

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

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, Portion of the surface of a colony of Heliopora coerulea magnified, showing two calices and the surrounding coenenchymal tubes.

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