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
The top of the spire, all calices, the calyx being indeed, through all the veronicas, an important and persistent member.
From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John
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
Oculinidae.—Branching or massive aporose corals, the calices projecting above the level of a compact coenenchyme formed from the coenosarc which covers the exterior of the corallum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Would not one say that all these delicate corollæ, all these calices, explosions of odours and colours, execute a mystical dance around the hieratic staff?
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles
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