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How to use calyx in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Calyx means the outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop. Example: “A reduction in growth was accompanied by protrusion of the calyx.”

Examples of calyx by meaning

nounThe outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.

  • The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex.1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf, Macmillan, page 202

More sentences with calyx

  • A reduction in growth was accompanied by protrusion of the calyx.From the entry protrusion
  • The fruiting calyx is accrescent, covering all or most of the fruit.2012, Bean, "A taxonomic revision of the Solanum echinatum group (Solanaceae)", Phytotaxa 57:33–50, doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.6. From the entry accrescent
  • In dicotyledons that do not form a calyx, like the buttercups, the corollas are always choripetalous.1986, Ernst Michael Kranich, Planetary Influences Upon Plants. From the entry choripetalous
  • The calyx, too, instead of being woollyish, is merely fringed with rather stiff hairs.1930, Reginald John Farrer, The English Rock-garden, volume 1, page 169. From the entry woollyish
  • I do not advise those with calyx eyes, but I select needles with good oval eyes.1911, Leonard Arthur Bidwell, A Handbook of Intestinal Surgery, page 8. From the entry calyx eye
  • At the base of kokama the calyx and the remainder of the stalk are often seen.1903, Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory, Nanabhai Navrosji Katrak, Materia medica of India and their therapeutics, page 80. From the entry kokama
  • Some degree of autogamy is indicated by the enclosure of the two pairs of fertile stamens within the calyx, supertending the short post-like stigma.2005, Richard O'donnell, Rebecca W Dolan, A NEW SPECIES OF STREPTANTHUS (BRASSICACEAE) FROM THREE PEAKS IN LAKE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. From the entry supertend
  • The pentagonals with the flowers and the leaves of the central calyx are gilded all over, as is the inner lip of the vessel.1993, Michael Pfrommer, Metalwork from the Hellenized East: Catalogue of the Collections, page 188. From the entry pentagonal
  • Petals 3, similarly as calyx, smaller.1988, Peng Lin, Mangrove Vegetation, page 58. From the entry nautiform
  • The bud in its calyx in the vales where the big lips cleave away from the slopes of the Mount of Venus.1970, Germaine Greer, The Politics Of Female Sexuality. From the entry thrilly
  • Rybinii from which it is distinguished by the greater dissection of the leaves, the longer calyx acumens, smaller anthers and coloured corolla.1956, S.M. Bukasov, Translation of THEORETICAL BASES OF PLAN BREEDING, page 6. From the entry acumen
  • Each reniculus is like a small individual kidney with its own cortex, medulla, and calyx, and the duct from each small unit joins with others to form the ureter.2015, Annalisa Berta, Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology. From the entry reniculus

Meaning of calyx

  1. noun The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.
  2. noun A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes.
  3. noun The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians.

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Questions about calyx in a sentence

How do you use calyx in a sentence?
Calyx is used as a noun. For example: “A reduction in growth was accompanied by protrusion of the calyx.”
What is a short sentence with calyx?
“Petals 3, similarly as calyx, smaller.”
What does calyx mean?
Calyx means the outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.

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