calices
Americannoun
noun
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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
Lucâ legimus duos calices, quibus discipulis propinavit,” vii.
From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William
"You enticed two bumble-bees away from me to-day, though you haven't a farthing's-worth of honey in your withered calices."
From The Pond by Ewald, Carl
Oswego Tea; Bee Balm; Indian's Plume; Fragrant Balm; Mountain Mint Monarda didyma Flowers—Scarlet, clustered in a solitary, terminal, rounded head of dark-red calices, with leafy bracts below it.
From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje
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 Ruskin, John
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