Calyces is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 152 anagrams from letters in calyces (accelsy).
1665-75; Latin Greek kályx husk, covering, akin to kalýptein to veil, cover
Normally the eggs of the spring butterflies are laid on the under side of the calyces of flower-buds of holly (Ilex).
Only lianas, these parasites of the vegetable kingdom, raise their stems above the dusky vault to open their calyces in the sun.
The calyces become charged with oil glands, and yield a greater abundance of volatile oil.
The flour still adhered to this side; I see little bracteae or stipules apparently with glandular ends at the base of the calyces.
In Allopora the cyclostems resemble the calyces of Anthozoan corals.
The broken peduncles, mixed with the calyces and flower-buds, of several species of Artemisia imported from the Levant.
Each head is surrounded below by a whorl of lobed bracts about as long as the calyces which become swollen after flowering.
They are very partial to the nectar enclosed within the calyces of rhododendron flowers.
As they fade the calyces become fleshy and much enlarged, and resemble the fruit of the hawthorn when ripe.
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