calycle

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin calyculus (small flower bud, calyx), diminutive of calyx. See calyx and compare calicle.

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Noun

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calycle (plural calycles)

  1. (botany) A row of small bracts at the base of the calyx, on the outside.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for calycle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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