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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

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calix calices

Instead of suak, the women used here the calix of a flower, called furai, for staining their teeth with a deep amber colour.

From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson

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 F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

These people who insisted on the sacramental cup were called Calixtines, from the Latin calix, which means a cup or chalice.

From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by James Craigie Robertson

The lurid colouring of the young leaves is recalled in the flower-stems and calix, and enhances the colour effect of the whole.

From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Gertrude Jekyll

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 Samuel Dill

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

Lacking good, honest, deep green, one suspects from the yellowish tone of calices, stem, and leaves that this plant is something of a thief.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan

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

"You enticed two bumble-bees away from me to-day, though you haven't a farthing's-worth of honey in your withered calices."

From The Pond by Carl Ewald

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 P. L. Simmonds