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Origin of calix
First recorded in 1700–10; from Latin; see origin at chalice
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Nor do we forget the figuera, the bois le Sueur, or the wild pine burning like a topaz in a calix of emerald.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
Derived from the Latin word calix, genitive, calicis, meaning, a cup.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
These people who insisted on the sacramental cup were called Calixtines, from the Latin calix, which means a cup or chalice.
From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by Robertson, James Craigie
The calix is divided into 5 round pointed parts.
From A Voyage to New Holland by Dampier, William
There is the 'Bonapartea' from Peru; the 'Napoleone Imperiale'; the 'Josephinia Imperatrix', a pearl-white flower, purple-shadowed, the calix pricked out with crimson points.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Lowell, Amy
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
Towards evening every bird became silent, the flowers closed their calices, the leaves of the trees hung limply down.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r
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 Reade, Charles
I was observing with some pertinacity Vorticella convallaria; for one of the calices in a group under observation was in a strange and semi-encysted state, while the remainder were in full normal activity.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various
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
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