calices

American  

[kal-uh-seez] / ˈkæl əˌsiz /

noun

1. the plural of calix.

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calices British  

/ ˈkælɪˌsiːz /

noun

1. the plural of calix

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Example Sentences

Some of the plants were not yet in bloom, their buds curled in pink, pointed spirals held in the pale green calices, but most were already star-flowering and giving off their strong scent.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Oswego Tea; Bee Balm; Indian's Plume; Fragrant Balm; Mountain Mint Monarda didyma Flowers—Scarlet, clustered in a solitary, terminal, rounded head of dark-red calices, with leafy bracts below it.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje

I am learned, you see: Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

By now the sun was up, and the celandine calices expanded into perfect golden stars.

From Lives of the Fur Folk by Haviland, M. D.

I was observing with some pertinacity Vorticella convallaria; for one of the calices in a group under observation was in a strange and semi-encysted state, while the remainder were in full normal activity.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various