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

The capital of the Corinthian column is peculiar, representing flower calices and leaves, "pointing upwards, and curving like natural plants."

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park

Lacking good, honest, deep green, one suspects from the yellowish tone of calices, stem, and leaves that this plant is something of a thief.

From Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Blanchan, Neltje

The motto, “Vesani calices quid non fecere,” a parody on the line, “Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?”

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

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

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