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calycine

American  
[kal-uh-sin, -sahyn] / ˈkæl ə sɪn, -ˌsaɪn /
Also calycinal

adjective

  1. pertaining to or resembling a calyx.


calycine British  
/ kəˈlɪsɪnəl, ˈkælɪˌsaɪn /

adjective

  1. relating to, belonging to, or resembling a calyx

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of calycine

1810–20; < Latin calyc- (stem of calyx calyx ) + -ine 1

Example Sentences

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In Primula or Pedicularis, where the venation is clearly laminar, the tubular portion is distinctly calycine.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Mussænda, Pinckneya, Calycophyllum, one or more of the calycine lobes are normally dilated and petaloid, the others remaining small and comparatively inconspicuous.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Increased number of parts in the calycine, corolline, and carpellary whorls respectively.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah