calyculus
Americannoun
plural
calyculi-
Zoology. Also a structure shaped like a cup.
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Botany. a set of bracts resembling an outer calyx.
Etymology
Origin of calyculus
< Latin, equivalent to calyc- (stem of calyx calyx ) + -ulus -ule
Example Sentences
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Purple tints confined chiefly to plasmodic granules on the calyculus and stipe.
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The outer membrane of the calyculus is by no means always absent.
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Stipe short, not more than double the sporangium; net and calyculus both well developed 9.
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Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the present species, aside from its large size, is the peculiarly perforated cup or calyculus.
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It differs from all other American forms, so far described, in the peculiar development of the calyculus.
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