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

Pocilloporidae.—Colonial branching aporose corals, with small calices sunk in the coenenchyme.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

The top of the spire, all calices, the calyx being indeed, through all the veronicas, an important and persistent member.

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

"You enticed two bumble-bees away from me to-day, though you haven't a farthing's-worth of honey in your withered calices."

From The Pond by Ewald, Carl

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

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