calycine
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of calycine
Example Sentences
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Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
In Primula or Pedicularis, where the venation is clearly laminar, the tubular portion is distinctly calycine.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Increased number of parts in the calycine, corolline, and carpellary whorls respectively.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Mussænda, Pinckneya, Calycophyllum, one or more of the calycine lobes are normally dilated and petaloid, the others remaining small and comparatively inconspicuous.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
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