- a variation of calyx.
noun
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Origin of calix
First recorded in 1700–10; from Latin; see origin at chalice
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I have cried 'Pater mi, si possibile est, transeat a me calix iste!'
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Most all of them had rough blotches or rings about the calix or around the body.
There is the 'Bonapartea' from Peru; the 'Napoleone Imperiale'; the 'Josephinia Imperatrix', a pearl-white flower, purple-shadowed, the calix pricked out with crimson points.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell
It may be noted, that the cup of a flower is called calix, whence chalice.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Arthur Sherbo
She turned towards the inside of the calix.
From The Adventures of Maya the Bee by Arthur Guiterman
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
A few delicate mosses and slender grasses clothed the rugged ground with their soft verdure; and from between the stones peeped the moist calices of tiny, almost colourless, flowers.
From The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude by N. D'Anvers
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 The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
One of these, a M. Tiquet, a Councillor of the Parliament, sent her on her fête-day a bouquet, in which the calices of the roses were of large diamonds.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various
The capital of the Corinthian column is peculiar, representing flower calices and leaves, "pointing upwards, and curving like natural plants."
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
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