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calyculate

[kuh-lik-yuh-lit, -leyt]

adjective

Botany.
  1. of or resembling a calyculus.

  2. having a calyculus.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of calyculate1

First recorded in 1680–90; calycul(us) + -ate 1
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Example Sentences

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Involucre not much imbricate, scarcely calyculate; achenes oblong; pappus not copious.

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The idea of a calyculate ancestor, though by no means connoting fixation, turned men’s minds in the direction of the fixed forms, simply because in them the calyx was best developed.

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