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• plural of calix.

calices

American  

[kal-uh-seez] / ˈkæl əˌsiz /

noun

1. the plural of calix.

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calices British  

/ ˈkælɪˌsiːz /

noun

1. the plural of calix

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calices

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

Then, to please the females, he described to them the reliquaries, feretories, calices, crosiers, crosses, pyxes, monstrances, and other wonders ecclesiastical, and the goblets, hanaps, watches, Clocks, chains, brooches, &c., so that their mouths watered.

From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

But their flush is broken and oppressed by the dark calices out of which they spring, and their utmost power in the field is only of a saddened amethystine lustre, subdued with furry brown.

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin

Then to please the females, he described to them the reliquaries, feretories, calices, crosiers, crosses, pyxes, monstrances, and other wonders ecclesiastical, and the goblets, hanaps, watches, clocks, chains, brooches, &c., so that their mouths watered.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

The capital of the Corinthian column is peculiar, representing flower calices and leaves, "pointing upwards, and curving like natural plants."

From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher

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