calyces's Usage Examples:

Brilliant - Leaves large, richly tinted in autumn and winter; flowers purple; calyces and pedicels crimson; fine.

An average of 58.6 persistent calyces per m 2 was calculated and 100% yield losses were observed.

Stylaster has cyclosystems. In Allopora the cyclostems resemble the calyces of Anthozoan corals.

European plant with ample downy leaves, bearing in autumn bright orange-red bladder-like calyces, enclosing Cherry-like fruits of a pleasant acid flavor, and perfectly wholesome either raw or preserved.

It is a fine subject for skeletonising, and the stems, bracts, and calyces may be skeletonised intact.

The other species is less common, and is a free-growing shrub, 6 feet high or more, bearing large loose clusters of flowers, the corollas white, the calyces a deep brownish-red, blooming in September.

inflorescences of rich purplish-blue flowers with conspicuous green calyces.

Large, heart-shaped leaves and very long inflorescences of rich purplish-blue flowers with conspicuous green calyces.

Large bright orange-red flowers emerge from conspicuous pale orange calyces from July to November.

Pale lavender-blue flowers with white markings in the throat and dark calyces.

Synonyms:

perigone, ringlet, coil, scroll, pappus, sepal, chlamys, curl, perigonium, perianth, whorl, roll, curlicue, gyre, floral envelope, hull,

Antonyms:

unwind, uncoil, unbend, repel, straighten,