Calyx is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CALYX in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the outer protective covering of a flower
• the sepals of a flower, typically forming a whorl that encloses the petals and forms a protective layer around a flower in bud.
• a cup-like cavity or structure.
• a portion of the pelvis of a mammalian kidney.
• the cavity in a calcareous coral skeleton that surrounds the polyp.
• the plated body of a crinoid, excluding the stalk and arms.
• outer leaves that protect a flower bud
• The covering of a flower. See Flower.
• A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.
• (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

Words related to CALYX

calycate15 calyces14 calyxes19

Words that contain CALYX

calyxes19 epicalyx22 epicalyxes24 nectocalyx24

How to use CALYX in a sentence

• The Pine-boughs are the green calyx to their red petals.
• Zuccarinianais a very desirable free-flowering variety, with pale yellow petals and a greenish-brown calyx.
• Flowers bright yellow, the calyx being helmet-shaped and rusty-red.
• Flowers clustered in small heads, the calyx pale green, and the long linear petals almost pure white.
• The deciduous calyx would seem to be the only reliable distinguishing character.
• They obtain their food from the calyx of the flowers, round which they flutter like butterflies, and indeed are very often mistaken for them in their rapid flight.
• Hence, as Champollion observes, they often on their monuments represented the god Phre, or the sun, as borne within the expanded calyx of the lotus.
• And now the petal, twisted tight, Above the calyx peers to sight With apex tipped with purple, bright As if the rainbow dyed it.
• They compare the passage of a common leaf into the calyx or crown-leaves in plants, or that of a larva into a perfect insect, to the passage of one species into another.
• Some trees bore bunches of pale-purple flowers of tubular form, which fell easily from the calyx, and dotted the ground along the roadside.
• In the factory the petals are separated from the calyx, and are distilled with water for the production of rose water and the otto.
• Each flower as it blooms is picked off at the calyx.
• In the cherry, peach and apple, the calyx is a cup or tube with the upper edge divided into lobes.
• If we examine a blossom bud just before it opens we will see only the calyx.
• Evidently, then, the calyx is a protecting covering for the other parts of the flower until blossoming time.
• An invisible power appeared to draw her towards the group, and to attract her by a beautiful flower, whose calyx opened at her approach.
• This plant grows commonly at the sides of our pools, and in wet ditches, bearing numerous small yellow flowers, with petals scarcely longer than the calyx.
• And one day, while wandering through the woods, he catches sight of a lovely girl looking into the calyx of a wonderful forest flower.
• It must be inserted in a small calyx, made as before.
• The elongated calyx, forming the seed vessel, first changes to yellow, and, when ripe, red, which is from October to December, and in this state it is fit to gather.
• The little calyx holds the petals in such a way that the moment it turns back they are let loose.

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