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calyx
1. The covering enclosing anything, a bud, cup of a flower, shell or a fruit.
2. The outermost part of a flower, enclosing the other floral parts during the bud stage.

It consists of leaf-like sepals, which are normally green.

This entry is located in the following unit: calyc-, calyci-, calyx- + (page 1)
balustrad-, balust-, balaust- +
(Greek balaustion > Latin balaustium: supporting post of a railing on a balcony, staircase, etc. Borrowed from Italian balaustro, from balaustra; so called because of the resemblance of a baluster to the double-curving calyx tube of the "wild pomegranate flower".)
calyc-, calyci-, calyx- +
(Greek: shell; husk; cup [of a flower], used primarily in the specialized senses of "pertaining to or of a cup-shaped bodily organ or cavity"; also a reference to the "cup-shaped ring of sepals encasing a flower bud")