(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green
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Also on the tour is medlar, whose fruit is spherical with a calyx on its crown.
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On the average, variety Arab yields more, and with higher calyx to capsule ratio.
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Jason bringing Pelias the Golden Fleece, Apulian red-figure calyx krater, ca.
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Calyx, the girl, was 16 and a cross country running star at her high school.
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She was mistakenly told to leave the stage after she missed spelling the word calyx.
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Bracts are small, with bracteoles below the calyx, and calyx teeth subequal.
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Henna flowers have four sepals and a 2 mm calyx tube with 3 mm spread lobes.
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Calyx loved the Harry Potter series and excelled at cross-country running.
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In Mexico, the dried calyx of the flowers is an ingredient in agua fresca.
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- (botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green
- Calyx is a UK based drum and bass act, specialising in the techstep style. Previously the duo Larry Cons and Chris Rush (both of London), it is now a solo project of Larry Cons.
- A sepal (from Latin separatus "separate" + petalum "petal") is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Sepals in most flowers are green and lie under the more conspicuous petals. ...
- Colony Wars is a space simulator video game for the PlayStation developed and released by Psygnosis in 1997 apart from Japanese version which the game was developed by Artdink. ...
- A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds. ...
- Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women is an American literary magazine published by Calyx, Inc., an independent, nonprofit publishing company dedicated to supporting contemporary women's writing and art. ...
- Calyx is a term used in animal anatomy for some cuplike areas or structures.
- A cup-like structure in the mammalian kidney; Tthe outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, when it is not the same in appearance as the next such whorl (the corolla); The crown of a crinoid
- (Calyces) Small chambers into which urine is drained from the collecting ducts in the kidneys.
