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
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
Cui patellas aureas, et argenteos calices, et sumptuosa donaria, et opulentam gazam invidet?
From Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund
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 Fisher, George Park
C. L. N. A. I. J. In line 1 scan maddahiyi; and compare Horace, �Edocet artes; Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.�
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
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