calyx

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.
    — Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.
  2. Any of various cup-like structures.; A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes.
  3. Any of various cup-like structures.; The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians.
  4. Any of various cup-like structures.; A funnel-shaped expansion of the vas deferens or oviduct of insects.
  5. Any of various cup-like structures.; A flattened cap of neuropil in the brain of insects.

词形变化

calyces plural calyxes plural calix alternative,dated

词汇关系

衍生词
brachycalyx calyciferous calycoid calyxed calyx eye epicalyx glycocalyx nematocalyx porocalyx

词源

From Latin calyx, from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “case of a bud, husk”). Doublet of chalice and kelch.
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