calyculus

American  

[kuh-lik-yuh-luhs] / kəˈlɪk jə ləs /

noun

• calyculi
  plural

1. Zoology. Also a structure shaped like a cup.

2. Botany. a set of bracts resembling an outer calyx.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• calyculi
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of calyculus

< Latin, equivalent to calyc- (stem of calyx calyx ) + -ulus -ule

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calyculus calyculi

In any cribraria the presence or relative obsolesence, of the calyculus is of little taxonomic import since that structure is variable in every species.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

The calyculus is often entirely absent, and this has been supposed the typical condition; but, on the contrary, there often may present itself a cup as distinct as in C. aurantiaca.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

Purple tints confined chiefly to plasmodic granules on the calyculus and stipe.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

Sporangium depressed-globose, umbilicate at the apex, stipitate, cernuous, purplish-brown in color; the calyculus granulose within, occupying from one-fourth to one-third of the sporangium, the ribs united by firm, persistent fibers.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan

The obconic calyculus is always represented in the outline if not in definite structure.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

This is so frail that the slightest breath ofttimes suffices to effect a separation, and the empty calyculi are not infrequently the only evidence of the fructification.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

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